An 800-word composition about dreams

2008-0 1-22 | Xie Guozhong: I have a dream source: the rapid construction of global entrepreneur Xie Guozhong Sohu blog/China is driven by people's dreams of getting rich, but not everyone's dreams can come true. I have a dream: it starts from the Beijing Olympic Games, at 8: 08 pm Beijing time on August 8, 2008. Earlier in the day, the Shanghai Composite Index closed at 8888 points. At the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, people marched together with the Olympic rings, which are like five interrelated eight symbols. 88,888 spectators cheered warmly, 88 fireworks danced, and of course, two figure-eight projections shot into the sky ... there were eight digits everywhere. After 1949, China launched a massive campaign to get rid of feudal superstitions, and the government published a book to expose the traditional superstitions that were popular at that time. Fortune tellers are usually blind and regarded as braggadocio. They are often asked to confess their tricks and crimes at political criticism meetings. No one dares to give mysterious meaning to numbers-because the price may be a long labor reform. The propaganda machine spreads Newton's deterministic explanation of the material world every day, denying the existence of an independent spiritual world. Two generations became devout atheists when they were young, and now they are the elite of China. When my roommate at MIT encouraged me to believe in Christianity, I told him it was too late. Shiyi time-shifted, with several 8-car licenses, it can sell at sky-high prices; In order to attract investment, the local government is willing to provide enough telephone numbers for local five-star hotels, the number is 8. The popularity of this number is only due to a simple fact: in Cantonese, 8 and "Fa" are synonyms. Superstition has existed in Hong Kong since 1949 was eliminated in the Mainland. When the mainland felt it needed them again, it reintroduced them from Hong Kong through Guangdong. The lucky number 8 is probably the most widely known part of Guangdong people's contribution to China culture. Although 8 is valuable in life, other numbers are not. The number 4 is simply swept out of the door: because it sounds like "death" in Mandarin-although it is not so similar in many other dialects, it is enough. The meaning of death is too extreme and unlucky to take risks. Westerners don't like the number 13, so they avoid it in China. People have made too much efforts to avoid the appearance of unlucky numbers: the fourth floor is called 3A, and the third floor is called 12A. The office building where I work has no unlucky floor numbers such as 4th floor 13 and 14. The marketing strategy seems to have worked. Not only are lucky numbers back in fashion, but all actions aimed at increasing people's wealth are reviving. Now the demand for feng shui masters is in short supply. Because of the Cultural Revolution, it once disappeared, but it has been popular in Taiwan Province Province. They are now wandering around Shanghai, trying to find a suitable business location in the urban jungle, so that customers can have a prosperous business and a wide range of financial resources. Recently, I invited one of them to find me an office with good feng shui. Those features described by Feng Shui masters as treasure houses-spacious entrance, facing south, far away from the bathroom, etc. -It also seems to mean expensive location. Of course, this is not outrageous. If the market is effective, then a piece of geomantic omen will inevitably stimulate more demand, so it will be more expensive. But I hope Mr. Feng Shui can find me a place where Feng Shui is good and cheap (I have never been so lucky). Then I found out, how can I make a poor man rich? It seems that you can only make money with money-unless you can get a loan. This is what economics tells us: an economist and Mr. Feng Shui have a lot in common. The game of increasing wealth is the strongest in the stock market. During the period of 1997, the rich women in Hong Kong choose their stocks through stock codes: those stock codes contain more numbers of 8, and they will get considerable gains. At least in the bull market, the same thing seems to be happening in Shanghai, and domestic enterprises have also noticed the benefits brought by lucky numbers. Fortunately, lucky numbers are not out of stock, as long as you are willing to increase one digit. China's most successful company, China Mobile (SEHK:094 1), has no lucky numbers in its stock code, which seems to be a representative of non-superstition. But who knows what combination of the number 94 1 will be lucky? Taking risks is the basic element of economic process, but the general public is often frightened by uncertainty. By increasing the expectation of success, superstition makes people tend to take greater risks. Because of Mr. Feng Shui and lucky numbers, China took many risks. It also makes the capital cost low and the investment increase. Therefore, excess capacity must be digested through export trade. Unless people stop talking about how to get lucky, Chinese mainland will continue to be an investment-oriented and export-oriented economy. The mainland's per capita annual income is only $2,500 (only 30% of the world average), and there is huge room for growth. Therefore, greater risk appetite is still good for the mainland, and fortune tellers, geomancers and economists can still add value to people. In the game of "increasing good luck", a bad undercurrent is the possibility of wealth redistribution-or the lack of possibility. Insiders and cool-headed people will grab the biggest share of the economic growth cake. Most people work hard to get a small salary, and then put all this income into the stock market out of superstition of good luck. The final winner is not random. China is rapidly building under the beautiful dream that 654.38+03 billion people expect to get rich, but only a few people can really get rich.