are affluent enough to purchase a flat, they want a villa. When they possess a car, they wish for a limousine. When they are millionaires, aren’t they anxious about being billionaires?
The competitive society is full of pressures stemming from life and work. Moreover, the Chinese care much about social status and personal wealth. It was reported recently by the Global Times that China was regarded by some foreign media as the top country obsessed with wealth. The White Paper on the Happiness of Middle Class Families was published recently by the media, pointing out that the middle class in the most developed cities such as Shenzhen, Beijing, and Shanghai is marked with the lowest happiness index. What they have is just “fake happiness.”
Anxiety is pervading the overall Chinese society, but is it an unavoidable process that the people in a transitional country must experience?