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This picture reminds me of the paradise in my mind as a child. When I was very young, I used to live in an apartment very near the forest. Every morning, I could view the naturally beautiful scenery out of my bedroom's window. My dad loves hiking. As a result, he took me to the hills behind our apartment whenever he was free. The scenery of the forest is very similar to it in the picture. For me, wild nature is a paradise to me until now due to the wonderful my memory when I was a child. I often look forward to exploring the hills in Jinshitan because I am still deeply appealed to the nature. I hope one day, I could own a house in the forest where I can find my true self.

My Essay: When the topic of China appears in no matter what kind of media, the prevailing impression of it is its growing strength in both economic and political fields. A great deal of data and facts demonstrate this distracted circumstance of China: for example, China is now the most automobile selling country, world’s largest foreign exchange reserves, owns second most GDP, and etc. These are great achievements for China in the recent three decades. Nevertheless, the nowadays China is under the cover of an exaggerated prosperity. If we dug into the real society of China, plenty of startling truths would come to surface. We would find China is a totalitarian country filled with economic bubbles, corruption, and inequalities. China is not as strong as it seems to be.

China is regarded as the second largest and on of the fastest developing economy in the world. Behind the prosperity, astonishing amount of economic bubbles which are similar to those of the American stock market in 1920s prevail in the Chinese market. The bubbles which could lead another economic recession just like the great depression mainly embody in China’s real estate and stock market. Data from Chinese authority illustrate that the average housing price has risen more than 400% during the last two years; in contrast, it has only risen about 50% during the last two decades. For me as ordinary Chinese citizen lives in a relatively developed city in China, the roaring housing price has great impact in me and people around me. Many new built housing estates are empty due to a fact that large amount of opportunists with sufficient funds invest in real estate market for profit. Pathetically, this common phenomenon has made the majority of Chinese citizens hardly can afford to buy a house and some even end up as bankrupts for paying their housing loans. Similar situation happens in the stock market. Serious opportunism causes the extreme unsteadiness and excessive appreciation of stock values. All of these inconvenient facts indicate the risk of potential economic collapse of the Chinese economy.

Another serious issue under the cover of fake prosperity is corruption due to its commonness. Nearly every profession now in China is filled with corruption. It has become so prevailing that people even do not regard it as guilt. The values of Chinese have been converted or even distorted. I can see corruptions everywhere on my life. A case in point is an office-holder I know. He sent his daughter to UK for high school and college which would cost about 500,000 Yuan per year. In fact, his regular income is not even more than 50,000 annually. This means he has to save money for at least 70 years without spending any to provide enough tuition for his daughter’s education. Similar cases are countless. The grave corruption is quickly corroding the achievement accumulated by generations. China’s strength is being curtailed.

The two issues presented above provide a comfortable environment for the growth of inequality which would lead devastating consequences like chaos in China. The widespread opportunism in real estate and stock market sparks many parvenus who do not deserve such amount of wealth. For government office-holders, the rampant corruptions make them to be able to own enormous amount of illegal wealth without deserved penalties. Therefore, the rich and officials collude with each other so that they are extremely privileged. For example, a famous news in China is that a rich business man drove when he was drunk and killed a pedestrian by accident. Then, he got out of his car and said to the throng: “it’s just a piece of cake. I just need to make several phone calls to the mayor and he will take care of everything”. His unbridled behavior reveals the obvious inequality which often causes chaos and even revolution as a result. If it did happen, China would be totally ruined.

A strong country must possess steadiness as a prerequisite. The grievous economic bubbles, corruption, and inequality cause China to be gloomy and precarious but not strong and steady as it was in our mind. Who will save China?