Thirty-five years ago, although China’s information technology was extremely backward, young Chinese people were able to absorb various knowledge from the outside world through the cracks. Thirty-five years later, although China’s information technology is at the forefront of the world, China’s walls are higher and more solid, and all young people can absorb is the rotten poison in the stagnant pool inside the walls, such a pool being unable to give birth to new life.
By: Bai Ding
Thirty-five years ago, the conjunction of unrestrained “official profiteering” within the system, in which people made huge profits without any investment, and the poverty of the laid-off and unemployed outside the system, aroused widespread dissatisfaction among the people in mainland China for the first time since the end of the Cultural Revolution. Thirty-five years later, the descendants of the former profiteering officials and the descendants of the former laid-off workers are still firmly fixed at the two ends of the social ladder passed down from their respective parents and other ancestors. (Note: “Official profiteering” is an informal economic term popular in mainland China in the 1980s, referring to powerful officials taking advantage of state monopoly of resources to exclusively sell or license those scarce materials, controlled by people in the state at high prices, to make huge profits. This term refers to both the rich and the powerful who profit from it, and the profit-making behavior itself.)…[Continue Reading]
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