'90s generation emerges as a rising political force across country

ZHENGZHOU - China's generation born in the 1990s is beginning to take the political stage as 20-somethings make their debut at provincial-level legislative meetings across the country this week.

The generation - raised in an increasingly affluent and ascendant China - is often stereotyped as lazy and selfish. But Shi Pengfei, 25, a deputy to the Henan Provincial People's Congress, defies this generalization.

Shi, a 2014 human resources graduate of the University of Liverpool, returned to Dulouma village in Weishi county and became a farmer.