| Sumario: | To address youth mental health needs, student wellbeing has traditionally referred to caring for individuals' psychological health and subjective emotions. However, an individual subjective psychological approach is insufficient in addressing society's responsibilities to enable individuals to live a happy and fulfilling life. A more comprehensive conceptualisation of student wellbeing is needed to understand the needs of individuals to stay well in society. Hence, the purpose of this article is to re-conceptualise student wellbeing from a relational perspective, emphasising wellbeing as happening, fluid, and always becoming. Taking student wellbeing in secondary education in China as a case, this paper discusses how student wellbeing is currently understood through a non-Westernised lens. The discussions of Chinese students' wellbeing might be extended to other social groups where wellbeing is conceptualised as 'being-well-in-relationships'. This is both about 'fitting in' and embracing an active pursuit of personal development within the context of interconnected relationships.
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