As for our close neighbor, Japan, in my impression, apart from visiting shrines, the economy is stagnant and so on. Is this what real Japan is like? What is the living standard of the vast majority of Japanese people? Take a look at what people who have been to and lived in Japan have to say. To put it in general terms first, Japan has leading technologies in the following fields. Superconducting technology: Japan has begun research on superconducting Shinkansen lines, which are expected to reach a speed of 500 kilometers per hour. Strength companies include: Hitachi, Toshiba, Nippon Vehicles, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, etc. Materials technology: NEC, Toshiba, Hitachi, Furukawa Electric, Kobe Steel, Sumitomo Electric, Tokyo Electric Power, etc.; Nanotechnology: High-speed communication technology, NEC, Hitachi; Next-generation DVD technology: SONY; Toshiba; Next-generation DVD Technology: Hitachi; Flat display technology: Canon, SONY, Futaba Electronics; Silicon technology: Tokyo Microelectronics, Nikon; MEMS: Mitsubishi Electric, Sharp, Panasonic; Universe: Ishikawashima Harima Heavy Industries; Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries; Toshiba, NEC, Mitsubishi Electric; in traditional industry fields, the current situation of the world is roughly as follows: steel: the first place is a company from Luxembourg, the second place is a Dutch company, the third place is New Japan Steel; the fourth place is JFE Steel (Japan); China's Baosteel ranks sixth (joint venture with Japan); Chemistry: Mitsubishi Chemical ranks fifth. The top four are divided between the United States and Germany; Asahi Kasei ranks ninth. Cars: GM is temporarily ranked first and is expected to be surpassed by Toyota in second place; Nissan is eighth; Honda is ninth; Home appliances: The top fifteen are occupied by Japan: Panasonic, Hitachi, Toshiba, Sharp, and Mitsubishi Electric are the top Five; Semiconductors: The semiconductor company jointly owned by Hitachi and Mitsubishi ranks fourth, Intel ranks first; Communications: NTT is the leader. It is generally believed that the development of new technologies from research to maturity is one stage, and the second stage is from maturity to application. The second stage lasts 10-15 years. In other words, if you want to apply a new technology now, it must have matured 10 years ago, otherwise it cannot be applied. Japan is planning to build a superconducting Shinkansen. In other words, its research on superconducting was matured ten years ago. The powerful opponent Japan faces in some areas is still the United States. Occasionally certain established European companies lead in terms of sales. In the foreseeable future, China is unlikely to become Japan's opponent, because China is not worth mentioning in either traditional fields or new technologies. In all the above-mentioned industries, if we use the top 15 as the benchmark, we can only see the name of one Chinese company: Baosteel, which is a joint venture using Japanese technology. The food, education, housing and medical expenses of ordinary Japanese people. I have lived in Japan for more than ten years, and my income after graduating with a PhD is slightly higher than that of Japanese people. Life is basically the same as that of ordinary Japanese people. It can objectively introduce the food, education, housing, and medical care of ordinary Japanese people, that is, their current life, education, housing, and medical affairs. First of all, there are two points to make. First, people who have worked in Japan for several years and saved money and returned to China do not live the life of ordinary Japanese. Their perceptions are somewhat one-sided. Second, please read this introduction calmly. Know yourself and your enemy, and think about how to learn to change. 1. Income and Purchasing Power Japanese people’s fixed monthly salary can generally be calculated simply. Approximately how many thousands of yen you can earn per month at your age, for example, 300,000 yen for a 30-year-old, 500,000 yen for a 50-year-old, plus summer and year-end Two bonuses for 2-5 months. Therefore, the annual income at the age of 30 is generally 4.5 million yen, and the annual income at the age of 40 is 6 million yen. The above is the after-tax income. Those below this number are not doing well in life, and those above this number are successful in career. Taxes, insurance, etc. generally account for 10-20, and are deducted from wages and paid directly to the relevant departments by the company or bank. This summer bonus and year-end bonus are very important. Temporary workers do not have them, only regular employees have them. The longer you work in a company, the higher you get. Buying a house or a car basically depends on them. The salary of temporary workers is generally 700-1,000 yen/hour, and working 26 days a month for eight hours a day is 166,400 yen/month. The yen/renminbi exchange rate fluctuates greatly, but it can generally be calculated as 10,000 yen = 700 yuan. Another rough calculation method is 100 US dollars = 1,000 yuan = 10,000 yen.
There are 100-yen stores everywhere in Japan now. Thousands of daily necessities are sold for 100 yen, which is 7 yuan. Things that cost more than 10 yuan in China, such as tape measures, tools, etc., are also 100 yen there. Fruits and vegetables in supermarkets cost 100 yen each or a handful. Except for the exception of 10 yen for 10 eggs and 1,000 yen for 10 pounds of rice, the purchasing power of 100 yen is basically the same as the purchasing power of 1-7 yuan. In other words, everything that can be bought for 1-7 yuan in China can be bought in Japan. It can be purchased for 100 yen. The monthly purchasing power is China’s monthly salary/price=1,500 yuan/7 yuan=214 pieces, the monthly salary/price of a 30-year-old worker in Japan=300,000 yen/100 yen=3,000 pieces, and the daily purchasing power in China is 214 pieces/30 days=7 pieces. /day, Japan 3000 pieces/30 days = 100 pieces/day. In turn, understanding the price/wage ratio means that one day’s wages in China can buy 7 items, while in Japan one’s one day’s wages can buy 100 items. In addition to fresh vegetables, the whole family goes shopping by car. Fruits, beer, snacks, etc. come in boxes of various kinds. At the 100-yen store, a large basket only costs a few thousand yen. Things are so cheap that we have to throw away several boxes of stuff every time we move. We often receive material donations from senior overseas students or Japanese friends. After graduation and working, we often give away things, including color TVs, refrigerators, air conditioners, electronic keyboards, cars, computers, etc. This is basically the same in other countries. When you first go there, others give you things, and a few years later you give things to others. I love traveling and have been to many countries, whether it is Southeast Asia, India, Europe, the United States, or Australia. When comparing prices/wages objectively, China's price/wage ratio is the most expensive in the world. You only need to calculate how much you can buy with one month's salary. A life where everyone's wages increase tenfold and prices drop by half is the current life in advanced countries. 2. My children were born and raised in Japan, and I graduated with a PhD there, so I have personal experience with all the costs involved in the entire process from the birth of a child to the graduation of a PhD. When you are pregnant with a child, the Japanese government will start paying nutrition fees and delivering milk to your home every day. When the baby was born, he went directly to the city hall to receive 300,000 yen. After paying hospital fees and buying all the baby supplies, he still had tens of thousands left. Kindergarten can be sent in one month. The cost of government-run kindergartens is about 10,000-30,000 yen per month, and the cost of private kindergartens is about twice that of public schools. Kindergarten is part of social welfare, and those with low incomes can apply to pay less or no payment. Tuition fees from elementary school to junior high school are zero, and the daily lunch fee is about 3,000 yen/month. The total payment to the school for a year is about 30,000 yen, which is equivalent to 3 days' salary. Once I moved from one city to another, because the textbooks were different, I got another set of all the textbooks for that school year. Education is not compulsory starting from high school, and the tuition is about 100,000 yen. It costs 200,000 yen a year, which is less than one month's salary. Tuition fees at private universities are about 1 million yen/year, and tuition at national universities is about 500,000 yen/year. There are various scholarships, student loans, etc. Almost everyone from kindergarten to university can apply for fee exemption. As an international student, I applied for half-fee exemption for my children and myself. 3. Housing Housing in Japan is very expensive, but except for Tokyo, which is particularly expensive, housing prices in other cities are less than 1/2 of Tokyo's. An ordinary family of three lives in an old house for 30,000-50,000 yen per month. I live in a two-story villa in a medium-sized city with a garden in front and a vegetable garden in the back. The monthly rent is 70,000 yen. Ordinary workers can afford a mortgage of 30,000 to 50,000 yen per month for 20 years to buy a house. In other words, after living and working for decades, the house is theirs. An ordinary 30-year-old white-collar worker can buy a house with a ten-year salary of 300,000 yuan/month or 4.5 million yuan/year. However, because there are tax exemption benefits for mortgage consumption, most of them take out mortgages. Tax deducting means that after all your expenses for buying a house, buying a car, medical treatment, etc. are deducted, you only have to pay taxes on the remaining income. Let’s talk about the car by the way. Generally, college students buy a used car after learning how to drive during the summer vacation of their first year of college, which costs 50,000 to 100,000 yen. My Honda car was given by a classmate for zero yuan. When he was admitted to graduate school, his family spent more than 1.2 million yen to buy a new Corolla. The cars that college students buy just after graduation and work are generally of this grade (Corolla, Vios) and price (80-80- 1.5 million yen). In other words, college students can buy a used car after working for a month, and they can buy a new car by borrowing their parents’ bonus (2-5 months’ salary) after working.
My Honda was sold to a recycling plant in the 11th year for a loss of 5,000 yuan. A Nissan Bluebird that has been around for 8 years was sold for 20,000 yen. If you have a car, you have to talk about fuel. In April 2006, China’s gasoline was 4.6 yuan/liter, American gasoline was 4.8 yuan/liter, Australian gasoline was 3.1 yuan/liter, Japanese gasoline was 6.3 yuan/liter, and Indian gasoline was 2.7 yuan/liter. The price of oil every day The change is less precise but the error will not exceed plus or minus 1 yuan. One day's salary abroad can buy more than 100 liters of gasoline, and one day's salary in China can buy 10 liters of gasoline. 4. Medical The biggest feature of Japanese medical care is that everyone joins the National Health Insurance. National health insurance is divided into three levels, namely boss level, ordinary level and dependent level. Those who open their own companies or have extremely high incomes belong to the boss level, and most people are ordinary level. Unemployed dependents and children are covered by their parents’ wages. To pay, you must pay independently from adulthood. I pay about several thousand to tens of thousands of yen a month, mainly based on my income. I pay it directly from my salary. I have never worried about it. I forgot that the specific number may be around 5. You must bring your National Health Insurance Card when you see a doctor. The individual pays 10-20 for medical expenses, and the insurance pays 80-90. If it is too high, for example, if it exceeds several times your salary, you can apply for a reduction or exemption. The differences between countries are much greater than you and I imagined. To reach a moderately prosperous level requires serious and unremitting efforts. After World War II, others worked hard for decades, and we struggled for decades. I took a dozen Chinese middle school students to Japan for two weeks. After I came back, I said that you should study hard and work hard to shorten the 50-year gap. The important task falls on your shoulders. The students said that the 100-year gap is too difficult for them. , I cried in my heart that night. Then, I returned to my country. Another point is the credit that our society lacks. The social atmosphere in Japan is that it is difficult for people who are dishonest to survive in society. What is the level of urbanization in Japan? In 1950, Japan's urban population accounted for 38% of the total population, roughly the same as China today, and most Japanese today live in cities. In 2003, the growth of China's heavy industry exceeded that of light industry by 4 percentage points, and investment in heavy industry began to enter a period of prosperity. The whole country is delighted that China's economy has entered the "heavy chemical industry" stage. However, few Chinese people know that as early as 1955, Japan entered the advanced processing stage of heavy chemical industry and transitioned to a capital- and technology-intensive economy. Looking at the industrial structure alone, China is only roughly equivalent to Japan's level 40 years ago. China's current growth momentum mainly comes from the traction of the "world factory". According to the author's calculations, China's industrial growth contributed as much as 63% to GDP in 2003. However, in terms of total manufacturing volume, Japan's total manufacturing volume in 2003 was US$911.1 billion and China's was US$382.5 billion. Japan is 2.4 times that of China. Obviously, China is far from being called the "world's factory", but Japan is a veritable international manufacturing center. According to past catching-up speed, it will take at least several decades for China to catch up with Japan on the road to become the "world's factory", and it will become more and more difficult in the future. Energy issues, environmental issues, labor issues, Market problems will plague China. Japan's per capita resources are also very poor, but the Japanese know how to maximize their strengths and avoid their weaknesses through excellent processing. The period from 1955 to 1975 was Japan's fastest growing period. Japan's manufacturing output value rose from 81.4 to 96.0, while mining dropped from 10.1 to 0.62, and basic industries such as electricity, gas, and water supply dropped from 7.74 to 3.38. China is also a country that does not have abundant resources per capita, but its economic growth still relies to a large extent on selling resources at low prices. As evidenced by 2000, China's resource-based industries accounted for 54.5% of all industries. Among them, industries using agricultural products as raw materials accounted for 62.0% of light industry, and mining and raw material industries accounted for 50.5% of heavy industry. China is now beginning to pay attention to the quality of economic growth. In this regard, Japan is much more advanced than China. In terms of the GDP generated by the use of unit energy per kilogram of oil equivalent, China's GDP is about 0.7 US dollars, which is not only lower than developed countries, but also lower than many developing countries such as India, while Japan's domestic product generated by the same energy use The total value is as high as 10.5 US dollars, the highest in the world, which is approximately 15 times that of China.
With the same resources and energy, the Japanese actually created an output value that is 15 times higher than that of China? Chinese people also like to talk about "Laozi" and "the unity of nature and man", but how can the Chinese cherish nature as much as the Japanese? ! China is entering a new round of golden growth period. However, in 2004, when economic growth first took off, total GDP had just accounted for 4% of the world's total, oil consumption had jumped to second place in the world, power generation consumption accounted for 13% of global consumption, steel consumption accounted for 27% of the world's total, and cement consumption accounted for 27% of the world's total. Consumption accounts for 40% of the world's total, and coal consumption accounts for 31% of the world's total. Therefore, people all over the world are worried about whether China's long-term growth will lead to global resource shortages. "Will China starve the world to death?" In fact, China should humbly learn from Japan, cherish its resources and use them efficiently like Japan does. China is currently entering into an upsurge of painstakingly formulating various "energy strategies" and "resource strategies." In fact, in the most simple way, China should look inward and tap into its potential like Japan, so that China's energy and resources can basically be used at present. Maintaining the same level has supported China's economy to increase several times. China's large number of laborers is a major advantage for China in the global division of labor. However, China cannot utilize its labor efficiently, which greatly offsets this advantage. Therefore, in the same period of rapid growth, from 1960 to 1975, Japan's labor productivity grew at an average annual rate of 11.07%; from 1980 to 2000, China's labor productivity grew at an average annual rate of only 5.19%, an average annual growth rate of 2.0% in US dollars. 59. The comparison of labor productivity indicators fully shows that China's rapid growth relies on the human sea tactic, while Japan relies on the improvement of labor efficiency. In addition to relying on human wave tactics, China's growth also relies on massive investment, but what about the quality of investment? It is said that Japan has serious bad debts. However, in the process of going from rapid growth to economic recession, the bad debt ratio of Japanese banks was only 5, while the non-performing loan ratio of China's four major commercial banks in 2000 was as high as 28.78. If the four major state-owned banks were Including the 1.4 trillion yuan of non-performing assets acquired by asset management companies, the non-performing loan ratio is nearly 45. Obviously, compared with Japan, China's investment efficiency and effectiveness have drastically improved. Ramp; D (research and development) expenditures as a proportion of GDP are a set of internationally accepted important indicators used to measure the scale of a country's scientific and technological activities and the intensity of its scientific and technological investment, and reflect the potential and sustainability of the country's economic growth to a certain extent. Development capabilities. In 2000, China spent 89.6 billion yuan on this indicator, accounting for 1 percentage point of GDP for the first time in history. For the same indicator, Japan's was 3.12 in 2000, which was not only much higher than China, but also higher than the United States' 2.65, Germany's 2.37, France's 2.17, and the United Kingdom's 1.87, ranking first in the world. In fact, since 1990, Japan's R&D expenditure as a proportion of GDP has been the largest in the world. what does that mean? This means that this country has an unyielding determination to rejuvenate the country through science and technology, and it also inadvertently reveals the secret of this country's prosperity, which is that it is technology-based and technology-leading. Of course, this indicator also shows that "Little Japan" is not a short-sighted nation as some Chinese people imagine. On the contrary, the Japanese nation is a far-sighted nation - only a far-sighted nation can give up anything. Spend big money investing in your future. In contrast, China's enterprises, the country, and even ordinary citizens all seem so eager for quick success and disappointing. The Chinese prefer to shout slogans of "rejuvenating the country through science and technology" or scold the Japanese online, but they are unwilling to spend time to learn scientific knowledge. In terms of patented inventions: In 1995, China's number of patent applications accounted for only 1.45 of the world's total, and its number of approvals accounted for 0.48 of the world's total. Japan's number of patent applications accounted for 13.48 of the world's total, and its number of patent approvals accounted for 15.3 of the world's total. The survey results recently released by the Korea Development Bank show that if converted using South Korea as the benchmark (100), China’s is 76.5 and Japan’s is 110.5. A number that Chinese people must always remember is: the number of Japanese who have won the Nobel Prize has reached 12, and the number of Chinese people is still 0.
A great man said it well: "China should make greater contributions to mankind." However, doing it is much harder than saying it! At the enterprise level, the construction of the technological innovation system of Chinese enterprises is still in its infancy. The proportion of R&D expenditures in sales revenue of large and medium-sized industrial enterprises is usually less than 1, while Japanese enterprises have already established a complete technological innovation system, and the R&D expenses of enterprises are generally low. All are above 5-10. There are very few research talents in Chinese enterprises, and they are constantly being lost to foreign companies. And per 10,000 working people, Japan has the highest number of researchers in the world. In 2000, it was 109.3, higher than the 73.8 in the United States, 60.3 in France, 59.6 in Germany and 54.8 in the United Kingdom. China regards entering the Fortune Global 500 as an elusive goal for enterprise development. In 1994, Japan had as many entrepreneurs in the Fortune Global 500 as the United States, and occupied all the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places. Among the top ten, more than half were Japanese companies. Since the 1990s, the world has been badmouthing Japan. However, in 2003, Japanese companies still ranked 88 among the world's top 500 companies. China only has 12 seats, and most of them are monopoly state-owned enterprises. The top one is PetroChina, ranking 69th. Do you dare to imagine when China will become the country with the largest number of Fortune 500 companies? Do you dare to imagine a Chinese company occupying the top spot among the Fortune 500 companies and taking all the top four places? Such a day may come one day. However, our neighbors did it as early as the 1990s. Should any honest Chinese, a Chinese entrepreneur with global ambitions, show any respect for this? ! No matter how good the economy is, it is useless if it cannot improve people's lives. Let’s compare the living standards of the people again. In 2003, China's per capita income exceeded US$1,000 for the first time, approaching US$1,080; Japan's per capita income was US$33,077, 31 times that of China. Taking GDP per capita as income alone, China is only equivalent to Japan's level in 1966. The Engel coefficient of household consumption (that is, the proportion of household food consumption expenditures in total household consumption expenditures) is an indicator of living standards. In 2002, Japan's Engel coefficient was 22.3, while China's current urban ratio is 37.1 and the rural ratio is 45.6. In other words, the current living expenses of the Chinese are mainly on eating, but Japan spends its main expenses on other aspects besides food. China is on survival consumption, and Japan is on development consumption. However, the saddest thing is that the Chinese people whose living standards are only equivalent to Japan's "1960s" and whose consumption expenditure is only enough for food and drink often feel that they are very rich and often behave lavishly (for example, some people advocate big. Hosting the Olympics) ), but the Japanese, whose living standards are among the highest in the world, often cry out for poverty in the world, practice strict frugality everywhere, and are often surprisingly "stingy"! Who is stupider than whom? Who is really stupid? Housing: In 2003, the per capita living area of ??urban residents in China was 18 square meters, while in Japan it was 25 square meters. Japan's extremely small land area is 1.4 times that of China. People's lives depend not only on per capita income, but also on income gaps. In 2000, China's Gini coefficient was 0.414, which has reached the international warning level. China is recognized as one of the countries with the most unfair income distribution in the world. On the contrary, and what many people don’t expect, although Japan is a capitalist country, it is one of the countries with the most equitable income distribution in the world. The Gini coefficient is 0.285, which is comparable to any of the fairest periods in Chinese history. The unemployment rate refers to the urban registered unemployment rate at the end of June this year, which was 4.2, and the number of unemployed people was 7.95 million, an increase of 0.2 and 250,000 respectively from the end of last year. But this data omits too much. Scholars estimate that the current urban unemployment rate in China, including registered unemployment, laid-off workers and other types of unemployment, totals about 8 to 10 (Wang Mengkui, 2003). Chinese media often report that Japan has been in economic difficulties and has a high unemployment rate in recent years. It seems that the Japanese can no longer survive. In fact, the highest unemployment rate in Japan was only 5.5. In 2003, as the economy rebounded, the average unemployment rate quickly fell back to 5.3. Education: Chinese people have always believed that they value education the most, and have repeatedly emphasized that "no matter how hard it is, we can't suffer for our children, and no matter how poor we are, we can't afford education."
It is true that Chinese parents do everything for their children. However, due to the lack of national education funds and the defects of the general education system, among the Chinese today, the adult literacy rate is only 81.5, and the number of illiterate and semi-literate people accounts for more than 15% of the population. The difference between the threshold for educational modernization is 8.5; the gross university enrollment rate is 5, which is a difference of 25 from the threshold for education modernization of 30. In contrast, Japan lives up to its reputation of attaching great importance to education. Japan has already reached 100% primary education and 100% junior high school education; the gross university enrollment rate is 40.3, and the proportion of university-educated people in the total population is as high as 48%; the adult literacy rate is nearly 100%. How far is the education difference between China and Japan? It is estimated that China's primary education is approximately equivalent to Japan's level in 1900, 100 years behind; secondary education is approximately equivalent to Japan's level in 1910, 90 years behind; and higher education is approximately equivalent to Japan's level in 1920, 80 years behind. One of the important reasons is that China's education funding is only equivalent to Japan's level around 1920. Let’s look at the informatization indicators closely related to people’s intellectual development: at the end of 2003, the number of Internet users in China was close to 80 million, and a huge “E-country” was born. However, the Internet penetration rate in China is very low, only 6.2. Japan has a much smaller population than China, but during the same period, the number of people using the Internet reached 77.3 million, and the penetration rate exceeded 60. Almost all Japanese aged 14-75 have access to the Internet. In addition, Japan's network is more developed, broadband communication costs are low and speed is high, and the proportion of broadband Internet fees to each household's income is only 0.8, ranking first in the world. However, China's network speed is slow and service is poor, and the use of broadband network is in its infancy. Shenzhen, which is at the forefront of the country, has only exceeded 30% of residential broadband penetration, while the average local level across the country is quite low. China's personal computer penetration rate is 27, and its mobile phone penetration rate is 30; Japan's personal computer penetration rate is 36, and its mobile phone penetration rate is 69. The difference between the two is also obvious. Some people may have said that Japan is only strong in economy, technology, and materials, but its civilization has nothing to boast about. The topic of civilization is a big one, and I dare not make a comparison here, but I can get a glimpse of it through some social indicators that Chinese people are very concerned about. As we all know, from the perspective of social credit and national quality, Japanese people are generally considered to be serious in work, efficient, punctual, creditworthy, and polite; Japanese companies are also famous for their creditworthiness and excellent product quality; on the streets of Japan You can't see garbage in the alleys. Whether you walk to a crowded subway or a crowded shopping mall, the ground is as clean as new, and you can't see graffiti on the walls of the subway; Japanese people rarely go to the public* There are no places to smoke and eat snacks, and there is no habit of spitting or throwing away garbage; Japanese people abide by traffic rules. No matter it is prosperous Tokyo, Osaka, or ancient Kyoto, there is not a JJ on the street, cars, people Strictly follow the traffic light instructions and be meticulous. On the other hand, what is the situation like in our country, which is an "ancient civilization"? If we say, it is because the Chinese people are not materially civilized enough. The Chinese are probably the nation that emphasizes "objective reasons" the most in the world. However, let me ask you, the current income level of Chinese people is equivalent to that of Japan in 1960, but the civility and politeness are far behind. It is also not as good as the 1950s when the per capita income level was several times different, let alone the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. Is the elegance and confucianism of the Chinese people really "knowing etiquette through practicality"? Corporate credit: As mentioned earlier, the bad and bad debt records of Chinese commercial banks are unparalleled in the world, which shows that the credit records of Chinese companies are very poor. In addition, corporate defaults are rare in the world. According to statistics, in 2001, my country's state-owned enterprises defaulted on each other's payment by more than 1.6 trillion yuan, and the scale of the counterfeiting economy reached more than 127 billion yuan. As a result, the country lost more than 25 billion yuan in tax revenue every year. According to a survey by relevant departments, in 2001, more than 650 products of 283 well-known companies nationwide were infringed and counterfeited by counterfeit products. In the first half of the year, the national industrial and commercial administration system investigated and dealt with 5,338 various types of contract fraud and other illegal and criminal cases, an increase from the same period of the previous year. 61 (Hou Yunchun, 2002). What does this mean? It shows that Chinese enterprises' deception and abduction are seriously eroding this country's market economy.
In recent years, a new phenomenon has been added, which is that companies are increasingly arrears with wages to migrant workers. According to the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the current wage arrears for Chinese migrant workers is estimated to be around 100 billion yuan, of which the construction industry accounts for more than 70%. In some places, the contractor owed money to the migrant workers, and the builder owed the contractor money. In the end, it was discovered that it was the local government that owed the builder money. According to statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics, arrears in project payments across the country account for more than a quarter of all arrears in project payments. Credit is taking a toll on China's young market economy. Chinese scholars are now finally beginning to understand that the solution to credit problems is not enough to rely on external legal supervision and internal corporate governance structures, but also depends on people's culture and even beliefs. However, China's traditional cultural resources have been almost destroyed. To build cultural resources, the Chinese people don't know where to start. However, Japan is a successful case of using traditional cultural resources to complete modernization transformation. The Japanese actually transformed the loyalty of samurai to their masters into the loyalty of corporate employees to the company, thus establishing the industrial and commercial credit of the whole society. Divorce rate: Chinese people would never have imagined that in 2001, the divorce rate in Japan, a "post-modern society", was only 0.23, the lowest among Asian countries. However, Chinese society, which has traditionally focused on family, has gone from bad to worse: in 1980, China's divorce rate rose from 4.75 to 13 in 1997, an increase of 8.25 percentage points. Among them, the divorce rate in Shanghai has increased 20 times in the past 20 years, making the world wonder: What's wrong with the Chinese? The family is the cell of society, and marriage encompasses the sacred relationship between the sexes. What will the increasing lack of stable family life in China bring to the Chinese people? Is it more irresponsible, more pursuit of selfish desires, or more freedom of mind and more liberation of personality? Corruption: You may not like Japan, but you must admit the fact that Japan is still one of the more clean countries in the world. On March 25 this year, Transparency International, a well-known international anti-corruption non-governmental organization, released the "2004 Global Anti-Corruption Annual Report", which assessed the corruption situation in various regions of the world. Among 133 countries and regions, China's Corruption Perception Index score is 3.4 points, tied for 66th with Sri Lanka and Syria, but Japan is among the top 30 most corrupt countries. China is now shifting from the pursuit of GDP to the "scientific concept of development." However, China has paid too much price. By the end of 2000, China's forest area was only 1.58 billion hectares, and its forest coverage rate was only 16.55%, which was only equivalent to 61.3% of the world's forest coverage rate. The country's per capita forest area was 0.128 hectares, which was only equivalent to the world's 0.6 hectares per capita to 21.3. Japan’s domestic forest coverage rate is nearly 64%, making it one of the countries with the highest forest coverage rate in the world. That ancient country full of green trees, beautiful scenery, and full of poetry, which nourished Li Bai and Du Fu, has now become a vague dream of the Chinese people! The land increasingly polluted by industry, the dying country with more than 1/3 desertification, the stagnant Yellow River, the Yangtze River transformed into the Yellow River, and the long dust blowing across Beijing in spring are like the sigh of Mother Earth of China, but also like The most severe warning in the world. Why did the Japanese still maintain the beauty of their land during the process of economic take-off? Why did the Japanese not let GDP blind their minds? Why did the Japanese embark on the path of scientific development concept half a century earlier than the Chinese? Should Chinese people put aside their "noble" status and study and learn seriously? China's average life expectancy is relatively high. According to statistics in 2000, the average life expectancy of men and women was 69.63 years and 73.33 years respectively. In the eyes of the Chinese, the Japanese are the most labor-intensive country in the world, with extremely high work pressure. However, what you would never expect is that Japan is the country with the longest life expectancy in the world. In 2003, the average life expectancy of Japanese women was 85.33 years, and that of men was 78.33 years, both setting world records. The average life expectancy of Japanese men and women has ranked first in the world for four consecutive years, while the life expectancy of women has ranked first since 1985. Obviously, although the Chinese emphasize "people-oriented", they do not live as long as the Japanese.