A blog post written by the wife of a Chinese engineer who recently jumped to his death has called attention to the intense pressures that China’s middle class faces.
Ou Jianxin, 42, a married man with two children, was an engineer at ZTEICT Technology Co., an information and communications technology (ICT) service provider that is controlled by parent company ZTE Group. On Dec. 10, he jumped to his death from a building at his workplace in Nanshan District, Shenzhen City, according to a Dec. 15 report by China’s popular news portal Sina.
