“Catching up with the times” is what China is proving to be doing in a large variety of “peacefully developing” sectors. Although mostly empty buildings rise out of everywhere and although often risky foods are abundant in many places, local people seem satisfied.

Aside the nation’s industries that produce all sorts of questionable quality of products and that build their empires on preferential treatment practices, education is the field that requires a high degree of understanding. The private/family life deprived secondary school teachers who have one choice only which is to follow in the path of their leaders or face consequences, and the sleep deprived middle school students who have to cope with the concept of strictly test driven rote memorization system that is set in the 6 AM-10PM 6 day weekly schedule may be able to shed a light on the understanding of their country.

The peaceful development and catching up with the times appears to be the will of a few people in the large crowd that demand everyone to follow or else. An employer, who knows little in the field, is not difficult to see on mainland; broken agreements or laws, rules, regulations, which have not been followed to catch up with the times, is not rare to experience on mainland either. How professional people with a fair play in mind succeed in such a competition is hard to imagine for me.

What seems to be understood is the concept of the few people in the crowd who are responsible for deceiving ideals, the substandard products and the abuse of so many hard working people. How the rat race, which is supposed to insure the party members’ jobs, is lawful or friendly is truly hard to comprehend for one like me, how it is to bring a better life to either the nation or world is beyond me.

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