Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin hurriedly left Paris in a private anti-gravity aircraft and had to leave the city without even spending a day in the city.
Looking down from the sky, Paris, a city with a long history and rumored to be extremely romantic, now looks like a battlefield in flames.
The huge parade filled the streets, like a rolling torrent or like locusts passing through. Wherever they passed, countless shops were smashed and looted.
The marchers even set cars on fire, and the billowing smoke made people feel like they were back in an era rich in revolutionary spirit.
It's just that none of this has anything to do with Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin. They didn't feel the slightest romantic atmosphere when they came here, nor did they feel the advancement of the so-called developed countries.
All I see is laziness and confusion, no hope or way out.
“Is a high-welfare society really unsustainable?”
Liu Daoming looked at everything below and fell into deep thought.
There is no doubt that France is indeed a developed country, and it is a long-established developed country. The French people live a very relaxed and comfortable life. They have more holidays than you can imagine, and the working hours in a week are not allowed to exceed 35 hours.
hours.
Even if you no longer work, the money paid by the state will not be much different from your job. Social security such as unemployment benefits, pension system, and medical system are very complete.
In such a society, the lives of ordinary people are really very happy.
The French have also created a glorious history. France was one of the first countries in the world to develop high-speed rail. France's nuclear power technology is world-famous. France's large aircraft and fighter jets were also world-renowned.
It's just that nowadays, the big French companies that people can think of seem to have completely disappeared. Only various luxury goods, fashion shows and the like are still imprinted in everyone's minds.
When the French model protects workers' employment rights and interests, it places a heavy burden on French companies; when it protects people's access to medical insurance, it creates a huge drug deficit for the country...
As a result, France as a whole has lost its economic vitality in today's extremely fierce global competition. It is precisely the "French model" that the French are most nostalgic about today that has seriously hindered the development of the French economy.
Especially in the past five years, with the rapid rise of China, especially the development of Galaxy Technology Group in various high-tech fields, it has completely impacted the only high-tech, industry, etc.
Of course, not only France, but also all Western countries have been greatly impacted. France is nothing compared to the United States, Germany, and Japan, but even the aftermath has completely torn away the last fig leaf of the French.
Without a strong industry, there is no way to support the status of a big country, let alone maintain a high-welfare social system, if it is close to the so-called luxury goods, fashion, romance, art, elegance and the like.
After leaving Paris, Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin went to Berlin, London, Rotterdam and other famous European cities. They also went to some small cities and even the countryside to see and walk around.
It was similar to Paris, and the whole of Europe felt the same to Liu Daoming.
After spending half a month touring Europe, Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin came to North America. Their first stop was the world-famous Harvard University, where they planned to visit this university.
On the campus of Harvard University, Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin walked slowly and leisurely hand in hand. This is a campus with a long history. The campus environment is very good, with neatly trimmed lawns everywhere and shade trees everywhere.
Students of all colors were chatting.
"As expected of a world-famous school, the students here are very diligent in studying, and every one of them reads very seriously."
Xie Linlin looked at the people studying hard on campus and said to Liu Daoming with a smile.
"I heard that Harvard is relatively easy to get into, but it is notoriously difficult to graduate. It is difficult to complete the credits. Therefore, Harvard students must be very serious if they want to graduate."
"In addition to serious study, this school pays more attention to a person's active participation in school or club activities and team spirit. It believes that a person's participation in a group is more important than being exclusive to one thing."
Liu Daoming also nodded solemnly. He received the invitation letter from this university. He also yearned for this prestigious school, so he checked a lot of relevant information in advance.
To be honest, he really wanted to study in this school because he had heard too much about this prestigious school since he was a child. In the hearts of countless students, this place is a temple.
"There is bright moonlight in front of the window, I suspect it is frost on the ground~"
"Raise your head to look at the bright moon, lower your head to miss your hometown~"
Walking, walking, the two of them came to a wide lawn, and a familiar voice came. The voice sounded a bit awkward, and the pronunciation was not very accurate, but when Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin heard it, they came immediately.
Spirit.
Following the sound, I saw dozens of people sitting on the lawn, each holding a book in their hands. A young man with dark eyes, black hair, and yellow skin was teaching these people to learn ancient Chinese poetry.
"This poem is a poem by Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty. James, can you tell me what this poem means?"
After the young man led everyone to read the poem, he immediately called on someone's name and asked.
"This poem is a poem written by Li Bai because he missed his hometown after he left his hometown. It expresses his longing for his hometown."
A blond man with blue eyes stood up and replied in very standard Chinese.
"Very good. James's Chinese proficiency is quite good and his pronunciation is also very accurate. I believe there should be no problem in passing the CET-6 test this time."
When Zhao Ziqing heard James' reply, he smiled and nodded.
Zhao Ziqing is an international student from China who came to Harvard to study. In recent years, with the rapid rise of China, especially with the emergence of virtual machines and virtual worlds, Chinese programming has become a necessary ability for the virtual industry. Naturally, Chinese education is also
began to become popular around the world.
The same is true here at Harvard. As young people with pursuits, Harvard students are naturally not reconciled to everything in front of them.
You know, in the past, the computer field was dominated by Uncle Sam. Whether it was the core hardware CPU, or software such as Microsoft, Google, etc., the entire computer industry supported a huge sky for Uncle Sam.
However, with the emergence of virtual machines and virtual worlds, the traditional Internet has gradually transitioned and developed into the virtual world, and the entire virtual industry-related fields are basically occupied by Chinese companies.
Uncle Sam's Internet industry has suffered a devastating blow, and almost all companies in related fields are struggling to survive and have lost their former glory.
Under this trend, if you want to defeat the Chinese, you must learn Chinese. Learning Chinese is also an option to give yourself extra points. Just like we learned English before, people who are good at English will have more employment opportunities.
Advantages.
Now here, people who speak Chinese well also have great advantages in employment. After all, the whole world is already shrouded in the huge shadow of China.
Liu Daoming and Xie Linlin on the side had been watching quietly without disturbing their study. It took half an hour for Zhao Ziqing to notice the two of them, and the class had already ended.
"That's it for today's class. After everyone goes back, remember to watch more Huaxia TV and listen to the Voice of China. Learning Chinese is actually not difficult. The key is to listen more and use it more."
Zhao Ziqing smiled and announced to everyone that the get out of class was over. This kind of class was actually organized by Chinese enthusiasts to learn from each other privately. Zhao Ziqing did not receive any compensation, but he liked teaching everyone because there was always a certain kind of class when teaching Chinese. Inexplicable sense of accomplishment.
"Hello, do you also want to learn Chinese?"
After class, Zhao Ziqing also came to Xie Linlin and Liu Daoming and asked in fluent English. He thought they were students from Japan or South Korea.
"No, we just came from China and saw you teaching Chinese. We were also very curious, so we came to take a look."
Liu Daoming smiled and replied in Chinese.
"It turns out we're fellow countrymen. My name is Zhao Ziqing. I used to study at Imperial University in China, but now I'm studying here. I'm glad to meet you."
Zhao Ziqing smiled and stretched out his hand.
"My name is Liu Daoming, and this is my girlfriend Xie Linlin. We are both from Galaxy University of Science and Technology."
Liu Daoming also smiled and shook hands with the other party, and introduced himself and Xie Linlin.
"Galaxy University of Science and Technology? Liu Daoming?"
"Are you the one who published the AIDS research paper in Nature?"
When Zhao Ziqing heard this, he immediately raised his eyebrows and couldn't help but ask.
"I published a paper on AIDS in Nature."
Liu Daoming smiled and said.
"You are really amazing. An undergraduate student has been able to publish a paper in Nature. It is really admirable."
Zhao Ziqing looked at Liu Daoming with admiring eyes and said.
"Actually, that doesn't mean anything. The main reason is that the school has laboratories in space and on the moon. I have just conducted some experiments in low gravity and microgravity environments, and I just made some new discoveries."
Liu Daoming smiled and shook his head, very modestly.
“It seems that Chinese is very popular here?”
After thinking for a while, Liu Daoming changed the topic to what he just saw.
"Not only is it popular, it's simply extremely popular."
"The Han-Tang Club in the school is one of the largest social organizations in the school. There are many people learning Chinese. There are dozens of volunteers like me teaching Chinese."
Zhao Ziqing nodded and said.
"I originally heard that Chinese is very popular around the world, but I didn't expect it to be so popular here."
After listening to this, Liu Daoming said thoughtfully.