Fast food, Hollywood movies and the Internet are a major part of their lives - they are connected and have their fingers on the world's pulse.
China's one-child family-planning policy came into effect more than 30 years ago and, according to a report in the Beijing Review, which quoted China Yearbook, an annual compilation of statistics published by central government agencies, 200 million babies were born between 1980 and 1989.
Yuan Yue, the president and CEO of consultancy group Horizon Research, said about 65 percent of the overall post-80s generation - aged 20 to 29 - were from one-child families, while that figure rose to 85 percent in urban areas.
During their advancing years, they have been branded spoilt, materialistic and self-centered, and accused of lacking a sense of social responsibility.
Now many are dubbing them patriotic, persistent, caring and responsible. So which is the real post-80s generation? (Wang Linyan, China Daily)
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