Response to Ching-To Li’s blog: In China, To Get Rich Is Not So Glorious

Yes, indeed. It has been getting more and more hard for workers to live a decent life in China recently. As shown in the statistics, the housing price is going up but people’s salary is not changing that fast. Therefore, in order to get their own apartment to live, workers have to forgo some of their desire to enjoy themselves. They work very hard to get the chance to be promoted, but they cannot keep company with their family. They pay too much attention on work, but ingore their health condition.

Besides, no matter how hard Chinese workers do, they cannot become millionare over one night. However, corruption offers top managers chances to be rich in a short time, but in an unethical way. When I was in China, I saw many news about the black trade between company and government, which lead to the unstable and unfair social economy. Even though China is getting stronger day by day, especially in economy, the neglection of workers’ living standard is harmful to the long term development in China.

More powerful law should be established and more care of workers should be taken.

https://blogs.ubc.ca/chingtoli/2012/11/18/in-china-to-get-rich-is-not-so-glorious/