Some people say that our country's trillions of dollars of foreign exchange reserves are national wealth, but in fact they are only exchanged by banks with RMB, which can't be regarded as national wealth, right? Of course, foreign exchange reserves should be regarded as national wealth. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange has purchased a large number of US Treasury bonds from these foreign exchange reserves. If the United States liberalizes the export of high-tech fields to China, these foreign reserves can be exchanged for many valuable things. Therefore, foreign reserves should be regarded as national wealth.

Social wealth comes from nature, to be precise, mainly from the earth and the sea. The wealth that human beings get from the sky is insignificant (sunshine and air are special, not to mention), almost negligible. The wealth discussed here refers to material wealth, which has nothing to do with the cultural wealth and spiritual wealth that people talk about.

However, for a country with basically fixed territory, there are two other sources of wealth: one is to plunder from similar people abroad through war, and the other is to steal from similar people abroad through foreign trade. Although hypocritical economists who like to hide their ears are unwilling to face up to this fact, no one can deny that these two sources can often determine a country's wealth and strength. Countless experiences in history have proved that any country, no matter how rich its resources are, how hardworking its people are, and how deplorable the wealth left by its ancestors, will never be rich and strong if it is plundered by war and seized by trade. On the contrary, even if a country lacks resources, it is still rich as long as it can get wealth through foreign wars or trade.