Since the early 1980s reform and opening up so far, China's economic development has been witnessed ****, one after another Chinese miracle in the occurrence of a China-made China's smart to the world, one after another peak of the economy have appeared in China. However, in the opinion of sociologists, the rapid development of China's economy did not bring the happiness of the rapid development of the Chinese people, but instead, after reaching a so-called height has never been beyond, why is this?

First of all, let's talk about the big data of happiness: the happiness index of Chinese residents from the 1990s to the present, has experienced a saddle-type change, that is, higher in the early and mid-1990s, and then has been declining, and then at the bottom of the valley from 2000 to about 2005, and then in the last 10 years was able to rise, but still not to the happiness index of the early 1990s. China's per capita GDP and per capita national income, on the other hand, have been growing linearly over the last two to three decades. The reasons for this period are worth exploring.

Changes in employment and social security have been a major factor in the variation of happiness, and before the mid-1990s, when the phenomenon of "iron rice bowls" was common in Chinese society and people did not have to worry about unemployment, retirement and medical care, their subjective feelings of well-being were good, even though their actual incomes and levels of security were relatively low. Therefore, despite the relatively low level of actual income and security at that time, the subjective feeling of happiness was good. However, this kind of iron rice bowl was unsustainable. Between 1995 and 2002, economic system reforms were carried out throughout the country, with state-owned small and medium-sized enterprises and collectively-owned enterprises that had incurred losses being "bankrupted" and "dismantled", while enterprises that had not incurred losses were "restructured" and "reorganized". "As a result, there was a period when a large number of workers were laid off, and people's happiness index fell. By the last decade, with economic growth and continued marketization, the number of people laid off and unemployed has been greatly reduced. At the same time, the social security system has gradually improved and matured, and the coverage rate of the pension, health insurance and low income insurance systems has greatly increased. Therefore, the happiness index of Chinese people has seen a significant rebound in this decade. However, in recent years, in the face of a persistently low fertility rate, the characteristics of an aging society, people feel y the mid-life crisis, the pension crisis, the degree of rebound in happiness is relatively slow, and even this year compared with last year, there is a significant decline.

This is the external reason, and then we will talk about the internal change of the Chinese people's heart. As the world becomes more economically advanced, the world is gradually becoming a single entity, and the rapid spread of information has led to people hearing and seeing much more than they did before. This is what is meant by not suffering from scarcity but from uneven distribution. Once too much is expected, happiness naturally declines.