HONG KONG -- In mid-March, newlywed Lisa joined the production line at a just-built electric vehicle plant of Li Auto, a star of China's burgeoning EV industry. She hoped to help cover the couple's living expenses in Beijing, but she worked only a dozen days in April and three in May.
Workers assemble electric vehicles at Li Auto's manufacturing base in Changzhou, in China's Jiangsu province, in December 2023. © Getty Images
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