Cui Xiangqi: The journey back home. 1. Many feelings.

Cui Xiangqi: The journey back home. 1. Many feelings. Phoenix Cui Xiangqi returned to China again after two and a half years. In just one month, he went to Beijing and Tianjin. Shanghai,...

Phoenix City Cui Qiqi returned to China again after two and a half years. In just one month, he went to Beijing and Tianjin. In Shanghai, Sichuan, Zhejiang and the treasure island of Taiwan, the weather is beautiful, the weather is sunny, the journey is smooth, and there are many feelings. China is making steady progress on the road to its dream of becoming a powerful country, and everything is developing in a favorable direction. Let’s talk about some outstanding feelings first.

From the moment I boarded the Hainan Airlines plane in West Asia, I felt that the Chinese people's culture of respecting the elderly was being restored and carried forward. When I was queuing up to board the plane according to American rules, a service lady approached us and told me that senior citizens could board at the priority gate. This rule was later applied to my domestic flights in China, but it did not apply to American Airlines. In the United States, only senior citizens over 75 years old can pass the security check without taking off their shoes. China's parks are free and open to people over 70 years old around the clock. The elderly can leisurely enjoy the fresh air in the park, raise birds in cages, and exercise. This is true even for gardens with high ticket prices such as Yuanmingyuan and Summer Palace. For senior citizens over 70 years old, all bus rides are free, and this is the same in all cities across the country. And people began to consciously give seats to the elderly. I took the bus 40 to 50 times, and every time someone offered me their seat, with only two exceptions. Once in Beijing, when a young man offered me his seat, a middle-aged man next to him rushed to sit down. No matter how many times the flight attendant called him to stand up, he just looked out the window and pretended not to hear. Everyone looked sideways, but he pretended not to hear. Such shamelessness is rare, but it still exists in society. Once in Shanghai, because it was four o'clock in the afternoon, the bus was very crowded and I couldn't give up my seat. Shanghai's management is often more sophisticated than other places, and the discounts for senior citizens do not apply during peak periods of daily commuting. It not only reduces public transportation pressure, but also prevents accidents for the elderly in crowded situations. People in Shanghai say, "Old man, don't worry about your mother coming out to make trouble when she has nothing to do."

Under the high-pressure policies of President Xi Jinping and Vice Premier Wang Qishan, social atmosphere has improved significantly. Eating, drinking and traveling are no longer seen in public places. In the dining halls, most of the three or five people are together. Even if there are private tables and banquets, it can be seen that it is a gathering of family and friends. But I feel that this kind of change is just that people don’t dare to do it, not that they don’t want to do it, let alone consciously realize that they shouldn’t do it. In people's behavior and words, attempts to use power for personal gain and benefit from the public are still common. Bad habits have seriously eroded into the social fabric. Changing this trend will not happen overnight. I remember when I was young, my father taught me that I must distinguish between public and private matters and not take advantage of the public family. When I graduated from college and started working, my father bought me twelve foldable stationery envelopes with eight-cent stamps on them. I used them to write letters home every month, and asked me not to use public stationery envelopes. When I first used office paper with red prefixes for personal matters, I felt uneasy and guilty. But in the social practice I see, there is no distinction between public and private, and the communist trend of "I am the master of the country, and what belongs to the country is mine" prevails. For a long time, the lack of basic moral education in mainland China has been a major social flaw. Look at the corrupt officials who were exposed. Didn’t they start from their own lack of basic moral defense? A thousand-mile embankment collapsed in an ant nest. This is a legacy of decades of missing moral education. To change this situation, we can only start from childhood, every parent needs to set an example, and it will take several generations of efforts to reverse it. People support and affirm the current government's efforts in changing social climate.

Service and attitude have improved significantly. Due to years of market economy, the attitude of service departments towards customers has changed significantly. We have a culture of always smiling faces and putting customers first, but sometimes we feel that the enthusiasm is a bit too much and we feel uncomfortable.

The working attitude of government officials is much more polite than in the past, and they also show patience. The number of people reprimanding people has decreased, but the difficulty of getting things done still exists. Prime Minister Li Keqiang criticized the bizarre attempt to prove that mother is mother. A retired friend of mine spent three or four months and eight stamps in order to transfer the house that the government had sold to him to the market. This was originally the house assigned to him by the government housing allocation unit. However, in the past two decades, the organization has been changing and the relationship has changed. This "father" who originally understood his situation best asked him to find a group of "stepfathers" who did not understand him to stamp their seals to prove that he was his father's son. It really made people laugh and cry. All the staff sympathized with the old man, and they said helplessly that the leader required them to do this. This is something that the real estate department should figure out through exchanging information, but instead the people are left running. It seems that on the way forward, many rules and regulations urgently need to be improved. Today, with the widespread application of the Internet and communication science, China's stamping philosophy should also change.

China is developing at a speed unprecedented in the world. It is no exaggeration to describe China's high-rise buildings as they are springing up like bamboo shoots after a rain. This is changing the face of all cities and towns. Not only Shanghai and Beijing, but also all provincial capitals and famous cities are as good as Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States. The number of high-rise buildings in small and medium-sized towns exceeds that of Phoenix, where I live. Housing prices have remained high. This may be due to the market demand caused by the large number of farmers moving into cities. Thinking about the fact that today's young people have one house of their own, the one-child couple will jointly inherit the two houses of the elderly, and some families have multiple houses that remain idle. If they continue to build such houses, they worry that China's housing prices will collapse sooner or later. In addition, all provincial capital cities have built subway trains. The original steam trains with a speed of 40-60 kilometers per hour have been replaced by high-speed trains with a speed of 300 kilometers per hour across the east, west, north and south. The "Harmony" speeds across the land of the motherland. From Beijing to Shanghai, it used to take 20 hours. Now it only takes 6 hours. I am convinced that these are symbols of national development.

While gathering with family and friends, I saw that people's lives have indeed improved. Although people still complain that wages are too low and prices are too expensive, it seems that people don't have to worry about food or clothing, they just want to live a better life. This is also natural in human nature. When I returned to China, I sent an American shirt with the Statue of Liberty printed on it, as well as some American chocolate and foreign milk powder. Now when I see them carrying Coach’s brand-name bags and almost everyone holding an Apple iPhone, I feel really embarrassed that I can’t give them any gifts. In cities, our past era of one person with one bicycle has almost transformed into a new era with one person with one car.