Have you noticed that the craze for Chinese going abroad has been getting stronger recently?
When you walk at the gate of the country and see the scene of the sea of people, how do you feel in your heart?
Shock, helplessness, or disappointment?
According to official data, in the first quarter of 2024, the national immigration management agency inspected more than 141 million people entering and leaving the country, an increase of 117.8% year-on-year. Among them, the number of mainland residents leaving the country was as high as 69.541 million, a year-on-year increase of 114.9%. Such a number is enough to make people smack.
Why is there such a grand occasion? Is the development achievements of more than 40 years not enough to attract everyone's attention?
Frankly speaking, the tide of going abroad has indeed had a serious impact on the mainland's social development and national cohesion.
So, what are the reasons for this phenomenon? Why are so many people leaving China en masse? Judging from the information obtained by various parties, the main aspects are as follows:
The first is the issue of education. In order to provide a better educational environment for their children, many parents would rather go to the ocean to let their children receive high-quality education locally. This is not only due to the defects of China's education system, but also a beautiful yearning for foreign education.
As far as Chinese education is concerned, for a long time, we have paid too much attention to exam-oriented education, pursuing extremely high scores, and neglecting the cultivation of students' all-round qualities. Tens of thousands of people competing in the same field, can you imagine what it was like? It's like a group of people squeezing a single-plank bridge, and very few can get through. Therefore, some people with better family conditions naturally set their sights on foreign countries, hoping that the education there can make children develop in an all-round way and stay away from the distractions of exam-oriented education.
Is this really the whole picture of Chinese education? I think it is just a silhouette of Chinese education, and even famous schools like Peking University and Tsinghua University have been constantly changing and improving their educational philosophy with the times. But some people do lose confidence in domestic education, believing that only by going abroad can they really learn.
Secondly, the employment and entrepreneurship environment is also an important motivation for going abroad. There is an old saying in China: "Enough food and clothing to know honor and disgrace." When the problem of food and clothing is basically solved, it is natural that they will pursue a higher level of quality of life and career development.
However, it is well known that finding your dream job in China is not an easy task. The mainland has a large number of college graduates every year, but the supply of jobs far exceeds the demand, resulting in a serious imbalance in the job market. In such an environment, young people will feel a sense of hopelessness for the future. There are also young people who are tormented because of the crazy overtime state of 996. As a result, some people simply decide to give up looking for work at home and go abroad to earn a living.
Seeing young people overwhelmed by the pressure of survival, we can't help but feel heartbroken. Isn't it a stifling of the development of the entire nation that the young forces who have made great achievements have been forced to leave their homeland and find shelter in foreign countries?
However, it is indeed biased to blame the education and employment environment alone. There are some deeper reasons for this. For example, the soaring cost of living in big cities, such as the lack of basic fairness and justice, such as some misunderstandings in the concept of culture and education, and so on. These factors will undoubtedly become the inducement for young people to drift away from home.
So you see, going abroad is not a must-do. It's just that with the progress of the times, people's yearning for a better life is increasing, and their requirements for the development of the motherland are also increasing day by day. If we can seriously solve these problems and contradictions, young people will no longer feel more desirable for life abroad. Could it be that the country and the people are safe, and the family and country are harmonious, isn't this also what they dream of?
But then again, going abroad does have its rationality, and it is not something that "worships foreign countries". We should look at this issue with an open and inclusive mind. If a person can find an ideal life and development abroad, we should also be sincerely happy for him. After all, there are no borders in the world today, and people can seek their ideal life anywhere in the world.
Thinking about it carefully, we of course hope that our Chinese nation can take root in this land and pass it on forever. But in the end, we should also give basic respect to how they choose. Anyway, this is just a kind of "bad custom".
Those young people who choose to leave may not have really been separated from their homes. Perhaps, they just want to spend a few years in the outside world and experience a different way of life, and then eventually return to the embrace of their hometown. is like a wanderer who has left home, his body is outside, but his heart is still concerned about his home and country.
A journey of a thousand miles is better than a single step. Some people go abroad just to pursue higher and farther ideals, and when they are successful, they will still return to their homeland to inject new vitality into it. Therefore, we don't have to over-interpret the tide of going abroad too much, but we should give these young people reasonable space.
Isn't this just a manifestation of our contemporary young people's pursuit of freedom and yearning for openness? Going abroad may only be a way for them to pursue an ideal life, not a complete betrayal of the motherland.
Of course, we also have to face the reality directly, this wave of going abroad has indeed brought certain pressure to the country's development and brain drain. Although I advocate openness and inclusiveness, after all, the motherland still needs a large number of young forces to build and develop.
For example, further reform the education system, dilute examination-oriented education, and pay attention to cultivating students' comprehensive quality; Another example is to intensify the reform of the job market to provide sufficient jobs for young people; In addition, we should further improve the living environment so that people can live a decent and healthy life in China.
I firmly believe that as long as we are determined to take strong measures, we will be able to create a good environment for young people to develop. At that time, the tide of going abroad will also naturally slow down, and everyone will have more cohesion and centripetal force on the land of the motherland.
Can't we be proud of the motherland's development? Shouldn't our quality of life be the envy of the world? Of course we can!
So, let's look forward to a better tomorrow for the motherland. Let us use our youth and sweat to pave a road to the distance.
So, do you feel the same way?
Or do you have a different opinion on this issue?