New apartments target the urban young and the entrepreneurial

Interior view of YOU+ International Youth Apartment in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on November 30, 2014. [Photo/CFP]

Residential communities specially designed for China's younger generation are popping up in China's big cities, offering a place to live, start a business, and make friends.

You+ International Youth Community is considered one of the first companies to offer this type of accommodation service to renters across China.

Graffiti adorns walls around the community, and the rental rooms are all tastefully decorated and equipped with all the trappings of modern life. More than 400 young people live and work at one of the You+ communities in downtown Beijing.

Its founder and chairman Liu Yang has worked and lived in six cities around the country.