A recent discussion of the cost of living in Beijing shows that every one living in this big city endures great pressure. All kinds of trouble prick them now and then.
The greatest problem is where to live. The price of the house has been experiencing a shooting growth during the last ten years. If I earn 4000 yuan a month (a relatively high salary, I think) when I find a job, I can only buy half a square meter outside the “third circle”, which is large enough for me to build a toilet. To risk thirty years in a person’s life for a place to live is not the habit of the old generation. However, at present, if you don’t risk it, where do you live then? With your parents? It is simple to explain why lots of girls are willing to choose a boyfriend who has a house already.
Another one is the medical system and the secure system. I mean, the city leaves a person no chance to have a serious disease. The amount of money spent to cure the disease will quickly make a well-off family fall to pieces. It seems the only good way to solve the problem is to go to the media and arouse the sympathy of people watching the TV, desperately begging them for the money to cure the disease. The old men face great problems, too. After retirement, their sons or daughters could no longer accompany them or take care of them as the earlier generation has been, for their sons or daughters have already shouldered the pressure of work, of house, of kids.
The biggest problem facing the younger generation is to find a job and survive in this big city. Too many people from other provinces want to find jobs in Beijing. However, there is no reason to stop them as everyone has the right to pursue a better life. But the fact is too many people in the city make it very hard to find a job. The right of choice is in the hand of employer. If an employee feels unsatisfied, it’s easy for the employer to find another one. People is not the thing China lacks.
Is it a difference between us and the savages in Stone Age? We are all struggle to survive.
2 comments:
I have heard about how expensive housing in China is in relation to a person's salary. In China, the average house price is 20 times the average yearly salary. In America, I think it is about 4 or 5 times. I might be remembering this wrong.
The salary in China is so low. 4000 yuan per month is equivalent to 500 American dollars, which means a yearly salary of 6000 American dollars. However, a "relatively high" salary in America, as you put it, would be about 60,000 American dollars per year. Some people earn much more than that.
60,000 dollars? It means 40000 yuan per month. I've never imagined such a great amount of money.
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