[1] It is the Chinese counterpart to the late Generation Y in the Western World, and the second generation of Chinese people to have fully grown up in the post-Tiananmen era and the first generation to be born after the protests.
[3] They are alleged to have traits that are similar to the Post-80s generation, such as the Little Emperor Syndrome and a knack for information technology and capitalism, but in a much more highly developed way.
[4] The Post-90 generation is also alleged to have less of a sense of hierarchy in the workplace and more of a sense of individuality compared to older generations.
[1][5][6] The Post-90 generation have distinct cultural characteristics and are often stereotyped as "lazy, promiscuous, confused, selfish, brain-damaged and overall hopeless".
[7][8] Unlike the Post-80 generation, which witnessed a glimpse of pre-affluent China in the late 1980s and 1990s, all but the oldest members of the Post-90 generation have only known a booming urban China for most of their lives.