It has become a habit for the family to watch the Beijing Winter Olympics together, because the 6-year-old son said, "China is the most NB country in the world." I thought that with this article.

Because when I was growing up, the phenomenon of worshipping foreign things and obsessing foreign things and the obvious cultural self-distrust left a mark on my childhood after 1980. Time is like a drop in the ocean. The change of two generations' consciousness is a great change of China's strength. My thoughts also go back to more than ten years ago, and I want to talk about the rise of China and the revival of Putonghua from a microscopic and insignificant individual.

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Why did I return to China?

First of all, the China issue, which is widespread abroad.

At 20 1 1, when I decided to return to China, my family and friends around me didn't understand.

Holland is really a good place, with beautiful scenery, little pressure and simple world. Up to now, some of my classmates still stay in Europe and America, often send some photos, and occasionally envy their comfortable life.

However, in addition to emotional reasons, there is an obvious social phenomenon that prompted me to return abroad.

The university I attended was a very good university in Europe, but as long as the China issue was involved, the forum was full. But at the same time, Europeans are very arrogant and look down on Americans. At that time, they even looked down on China, thinking that China people were just "nouveau riche". Therefore, China's theory of economic unsustainability, lack of human rights, voting rights and other issues are the focus of our constant debate.

When the rest of the world is talking about your country, where there are disputes and concerns, there are opportunities. Like everyone who returns to China, it is not an unexpected choice to return to China for development.

Is interest rate an opportunity for the poor?

In the year when 1 1 I was about to leave Holland, a strange phenomenon appeared in Dutch banks. If you deposit euros in the bank without interest, the bank will charge you. I don't remember the exact cost, but in my cognition at that time, I just thought that this was a country that wanted to promote people's consumption, so it had a monetary policy of zero interest rate or even negative interest rate.

In these years after returning to China, the interest rate of the bank's money fund has been falling from about 6% per year to about 2.4% per year in 2022. We can clearly see the downward trend of interest rates, but there are still obvious spreads with European and American countries. Needless to say, what caused this spread?

0 interest rate does not mean that borrowing money can be equated with no cost. Does that mean that 0 interest rate is an opportunity for the poor?

For example, you have a project with a yield of 2%. If the loan interest rate is 5%, you have to pay more interest than you will earn in the future, so you can't operate it. If the interest rate drops to 1%, then you may start working after the loan.

And what is the negative interest rate? Negative interest rate means negative interest rate. If you deposit a sum of money in the bank, you won't get interest, but you have to pay a management fee.

But banks in Japan and some European countries don't want to take deposits. What does this mean?

Explain that there are no investment projects in its hands. If you deposit your money in the bank, you will get interest next year. The bank has nothing to invest, which is equivalent to the interest you get. It certainly won't do that.

In fact, interest rates are positively related to economic growth.

When the economy is bad, people have nothing to invest and the interest rate will be very low. When the economic operation is even close to zero or even retrogression, for example, an economy has a rapidly aging population and has to implement negative interest rates, such as Japan. Or when an economy's technical reserves are exhausted, such as Europe, negative interest rates should also be implemented.

Negative interest rate will not be an opportunity for the poor to turn over, but it itself means a reduction of opportunities and social peace.

What am I trying to say? In fact, as I grow older, I am more and more grateful that I am from China and I was born in China.

The spread between China's savings and Europe and the United States is a trend comparison of national strength development on the international stage, and it is a microcosm of where and how opportunities are.

Third, the mode of "point, line, surface and body"

Point can be regarded as a person, and a person's strength is limited. Many people understand this truth, so they will choose to join a company by working, and then be diligent, hoping to create a rich life through their own efforts.

The company can be regarded as a "line", and the organizational efficiency and culture of the company determine the efficiency of your development;

The "face" where this "line" of the company is located can be regarded as the industry in which the company is located. Is this industry sunrise industry or sunset industry? Is the market of the industry a red sea market or a blue sea market? Many times it determines your development width as a "point".

It's about what the body is. The body is a kind of potential energy, which is the potential energy of your country. The rapid development of China in the past 20 years is this potential energy. When the potential energy is strong, it also creates the myth of China's wealth creation.

The truth is, it's not how awesome you are, but that you just stand at the high point of potential energy. Being in this country, China shocked the world's development speed and gave everyone the best potential energy acceleration. As it happens, you chose an industry with high potential energy-"face".

This is the dividend of the trend. Maybe you don't know where the future trend will go, but you stand with the trend, seize the signal left by the future world, and make yourself a part of the trend.

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China's Cultural Confidence

Beginning in 2022, it is a year of self-breakthrough, insisting on reading at five o'clock every morning, reading Tao Te Ching and The Analects of Confucius.

In fact, the more you read it, the more ashamed you feel. It feels like being in a cornucopia. However, in the past 30 years, you have been looking for treasures elsewhere.

I suddenly realized that our so-called higher education is just "knowledge", not "culture" at all, and I have always been that "cultural desert", barren and unaware of it. Funny and sad, but it's not too late to start at the age of 35.

Mr. Dong Yue defined culture in this way. Culture is: the behavior and consciousness system of intelligent animals such as human beings facing their living environment and living conditions.

It means that poetry and songs are just the waves of Wan Li ocean, not culture, and culture is by no means higher than survival. Although China's culture is short-lived, it will be magnificent in the long river of history.

I. Evolution of Chinese and Western Cultures

While studying the cultural differences between China and the West, it is found that the eastern and western cultures are always opposed, not only in content but also in form. It even works in different ways.

Western culture from simple to complex, from low to high. After theological stage, philosophical stage and scientific stage. But China's culture is just the opposite, from high to low.

For example, China's ideological foundation of Chinese studies occurred in the pre-Qin period, that is, before Qin Shihuang unified China. Since then, China has made almost no significant achievements in ideological and cultural development. With one exception, Indian Buddhism was introduced to China in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Even in the pre-Qin era, the highest point of thought in the pre-Qin era was Lao Zi, the ancestor of China Thought.

Therefore, the cultural development of China is contrary to that of western culture, not from low to high, but from high to low.

Second, the decline of China culture.

The failure of the Opium War and the Westernization Movement of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners". The fiasco of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 led to China's long-term cultural self-confidence, even to the extent of total negation and total westernization.

But in essence, China just stayed in the agricultural society for a long time, just like the rabbit in the tortoise-rabbit race, taking a nap under the tree. The tortoise runs fast and doesn't know it. The rabbit is a rabbit after all. As long as the game is long enough, as long as the rabbit doesn't take a nap, there will be no accidents in winning or losing.

Culture has never existed independently of power. If individual culture wants to invade, it must rely on the entry of power. "The more national, the more cosmopolitan" is just a slogan to comfort the public. The real meaning of this sentence is that only this nation has the power to dominate the world, then its culture and its value will be worldwide.

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Great, my country

By the end of 20021,China's gods had reached 70% of that of the United States, and China's purchasing power parity had exceeded that of the United States by 30%. Obviously, earth-shaking changes have taken place in this ancient and mysterious land.

Back to the Winter Olympics, this Winter Olympics will convey to China people: "China people, you should be confident", and then convey to the world: this is China, and China, which occupies a place in the world, no longer needs to tell itself "who I am", but we are more concerned about telling the world "the story of the future".

I would like to give this document to my dear motherland!