Education and growing up
Academic school, vocational study and adult learning
COUNTRY LIFE / CHN
A life in mainland China
Explore personal choices through school routes, work and household budgets.
01 / QUESTION
What might life be like if you were born in mainland China?
Education, sectors and family resources shape a branching fictional life.
China / 1950–2025
Choices along the way
Craft skills, manufacturing and service jobs · Shared care, housing and Lunar New Year reunions
02 / START
Set your birth
Population statistics describe the era, not the outcome of one person’s life.
03 / GENERATIONS
A country across generations
Population statistics describe the era, not the outcome of one person’s life.
1986Sources and scope
The 1986 Compulsory Education Law established nine years of compulsory schooling, as documented in the law published by the Ministry of Education.
Sources describe the social setting for the relevant era; choices and the simulation shape each person’s work, family and outcome.
04 / EVERYDAY LIFE
Choices along the way
Work and careers
Craft skills, manufacturing and service jobs
Family and everyday life
Shared care, housing and Lunar New Year reunions
Life across generations
The 1977 exam restoration, 1986 education law and 1998 housing reforms shaped different generations.
05 / SOURCES
Sources and scope
Population statistics describe the era, not the outcome of one person’s life.
恢复高考——中国改革的先声
Original source ↗中华人民共和国义务教育法
Original source ↗关于进一步深化城镇住房制度改革加快住房建设的通知
Original source ↗第七次全国人口普查主要数据情况
Original source ↗2024年全国教育事业发展统计公报
Original source ↗06 / LIFE ARCHIVE
Lives that began here
Only completed simulation records voluntarily made public by players appear here.
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07 / NEXT COUNTRY
Choose a birthplace. Discover a different life.
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