What is 'lying flat', and why are Chinese officials standing up to

Lying flat, or tang ping in Chinese, means doing the bare minimum to get by, and striving for nothing more than what is absolutely essential for survival, but this ethos poses a threat to President Xi Jinping’s “Chinese dream”.
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“Lying flat” is a movement about doing nothing. And that makes it about everything.
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