Youth (Hard Times) (Chinese: 青春：苦; pinyin: qīng chūn ku) is a 2024 documentary film directed by Wang Bing.

Tensions surface between workers and factory owners in multiple textile workshops in Zhili.

[1] Youth (Hard Times) premiered on 13 August 2024 at the Locarno Film Festival.

[1] The third and final installment in the trilogy, Youth (Homecoming), debuted at the 81st Venice International Film Festival in September 2024.

[3] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 81 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".