People born in the sixties and seventies are now in their forties and fifties and are entering middle age. There are two kinds of people around me that I have personal contact with, the rural ones and the urban ones, and in general both of them are doing well.
First of all, talk about the rural origin, my parents were born in the 1970s in the rural areas of Northeast China, the 70s in Northeast China's cities are in a period of development, but in terms of rural areas, the situation is not good, parents belong to the kind of typical poor children, education only primary and junior high school, 20 years old or so, my father was working outside the home for several decades, he tried a variety of kinds of work, and finally chose to do the bean products industry. The first thing I did was to get the money to pay for the work I was doing, and then I had to pay for the work I was doing.
When we built a new house in 2003, we were 60,000 yuan in debt, and the family struggled to get by, with no meat on the table several times a year. But in 2020 today, the family's income has basically reached the level of well-off, to buy anything will not hurt, the family can be said to be quite happy, although it can not be compared with those who have a high income in the city, but contentment is always happy.
The second thing I'd like to talk about is my girlfriend's parents. They are typical of the generation born in the city girlfriend's father, in the 90's when he did the cadres of the Local Taxation Bureau, in the city, he also after a series of struggle, and later did the director of the Local Taxation Bureau, I personally feel that their family life is still extremely rich, first of all, there is a car and a house in the city, this is my family can not be compared to, and secondly, they will lead their daughter to travel all over the country every year, which I think is relatively happy. This is what I think is happier. Educational aspect because they were born in the city, from childhood by the family education is also relatively good, so the two are university degree, their daughter's education belongs to a more strict kind of, my parents basically belong to the free-range, but the girlfriend from childhood will learn some of the piano and OU subjects, a family life is considered to be the middle and upper class level of it.