Young people in China don’t know what we’re doing - and they love it

18-year-old Wei DeLong, who lives in the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou, loves basketball, hip hop music and Hollywood superhero movies. He plans to study chemistry in Canada when he goes to college in 2020.

Way for Chinese teenagers is another way. He had never heard of Google or Twitter. Although he once heard of Facebook. "Is it probably like Baidu?", Referring to China's main search engine.

The Chinese generation differs from the rest of the web with the Internet Service. In the last decade, China has blocked thousands of other foreign websites, including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, as well as The New York Times and Chinese Wikipedia. Plenty of Chinese websites have evolved to do the same thing - though they have brought a heavy dose of censorship.

Now the implications of growing with this particular internet system are starting to emerge. Most young people in China don't know what Google, Twitter or Facebook are, creating trenches with the rest of the world. And, many people who are accustomed to indigenous apps and online services are not interested in what is censored online, allowing Beijing to build an alternative pricing system that competes with Western liberal democracy.

These trends are ready to spread. China is now exporting the censored Internet model to other countries, including Vietnam, Tanzania and Ethiopia.

Such results have been influenced by many in the West, which have an Internet effect. In his 2000 speech, President Bill Clinton argued that the rise of the Internet would make China an open society like America. "In the new century, independence will spread through cellphones and cable modems," he said.

For the US and other Western Internet giants, the pipe dream is high, hoping to find a slice in the huge Chinese market. The Chinese Communist Party has clearly demonstrated that it adopts a strict ideological mode of control under President Xi Jinping. Earlier this year, China's Internet regulator reported that the cyber administration had closed or revoked the licenses of more than 3,000 websites.

Yet the American internet giants are still trying. Google is working on a censored search engine for smartphone users, if the government permits. Last month, Facebook was granted permission to open a subsidiary in the eastern province of Zhejiang - only to revoke approval at the outset.

Although Western apps and sites reach China, they have to deal with the apathy of young people.

Two economists from Peking University and Stanford University concluded this year after an 18-month survey that Chinese college students were cautious about not getting censored and politically sensitive information. He gave free tools to about 1,000 students at two universities in Beijing to evade censorship, but found that half the students did not use them. Of those who did, almost no one took the time to browse foreign news websites.

"Our findings suggest that censorship is effective in China because the regime has made it difficult to access sensitive information, but it encourages an environment where citizens do not initially demand such information," the scholars wrote.

The idea was echoed by 23-year-old Zhang Yeong, a customer service representative for an e-commerce company in the small city of Beijing, Xinjiang. "I grew up with Baidu, so I'm using it," she said.

This attitude is a departure from the people born in China in the 1980s. When that generation came out a decade ago, some people rebelled. Blogger Han Han is most famous for questioning the Chinese political system and traditional values. He has sold millions of copies of books and has over 40 million followers on Twitter's Chinese counterpart Weibo.

Now Chinese like Han are not in their teens or 20s. Even Han, now 35, is not his former self. He mainly posts about his businesses on Weibo, where movies and race cars are made.

Many of China's young people are now using services and services such as Baidu, the social media service WeChat and the short video platform TickTok. Often, they inspire consumerism and nationalism.

In March, when social media giant Tencent surveyed over 10,000 users born in 2000 or later, eight out of 10 thought China was the best in Chinese history or every day. Becoming a better country. The same percentage said they were very optimistic or very optimistic about their future.

Shane Yannon describes himself as patriotic, optimistic and outgoing. Shane, 28, works in the operations department at the real estate website Bading, a city of about 3 million near Beijing. She said China was a great country and she was doing her best to strengthen it.

Every evening, she watches one to two hours of South Korean soap operas on her phone. She said she was not interested in politics because she did not have a news app on her smartphone. She traveled to Japan for a while and used Google Maps, visiting other blocked foreign sites.

“Chinese apps have got everything,” she says.

An HR spokesperson, 28-year-old Shane's friend Chu Jungking, said he spent two and three hours watching funny short videos after working on Tick Talk. She occasionally reads the news in the NewsApp Ginri Tutiao, but has found that many countries are embroiled in wars and riots. “China is very good,” she says.

14-year-old Wen Shengjian wants to be a rapper and sculpt Drake and Kanye West. Zhengjian, who moved to Beijing from the oil city of Beijing in the eastern Shandong province in July, said he had noticed that the American rapper was very vocal on social issues, and some criticized the president for his music.

This does not work in China because it requires a developing country and social stability. This makes the Communist Party state media and school textbooks redundant at all times.

Zhengjian, who loves playing basketball, said he knows the names of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. He said his father's friend told him that some of the websites on the website were "not suitable for the development of socialism with Chinese features".

Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat.

Now when he returns to China to visit his family for the holidays, Fang says it is difficult to use Google. He learned not to investigate sensitive political news before his parents, and scolded himself for doing so.

"You say Chinese apps are useless as soon as you go abroad." But with Google and others, "no matter what country you go to, you can still use these apps," he said. "The return on investment is very high."