I defend China on this platform every day. I write long threads about Huawei, about Western hypocrisy, about historical memory. I believe in this country's civilizational vision.
But I'm also angry.
Guangdong contributes more tax revenue to the central government than any other province — over 800 billion yuan net annually.
Per capita transfer payment?
Dead last in the country.
2,070 yuan per person vs. more than 70,000 in Tibet.
And what does Guangzhou get back?
Two years ago, I walked through Tianhe North — once one of Guangzhou's most prestigious neighborhoods.
Ground-floor shops were shuttered.
Doors boarded up.
Sewage on the pavement.
Silence where there used to be life.
A friend just sent me a closure notice for my favorite store there.
Gone.
Twenty years ago, Guangzhou's per capita income ranked among the highest in China, shoulder to shoulder with Beijing and Shanghai.
Today, it is being overtaken by cities that once trailed far behind it.
Here's the bitter part:
The same country that can unveil a 100% domestically produced PC under technological blockade is allowing the capital of its most productive province to lose vitality from the ground up.
China's trade surplus has already beaten last year's total by more than a trillion yuan, a full month early.
Ports are booming.
But the bakery downstairs is gone.
The noodle place is gone.
The supermarket is gone.
This isn't "China is collapsing."
It is something much more specific:
Guangdong has spent decades feeding national growth while too little of that prosperity has been retained for the people and cities that generated it.
A rich state should mean strong people.
When one of the country's greatest economic engines keeps sending wealth outward while its own neighborhoods lose businesses, wages lose relative ground, and local prosperity fades, something in the distribution mechanism is broken.
A civilization that can build a 100% domestic computer in seven years under total blockade should also be capable of ensuring that the places which built its prosperity are allowed to share in it.
The numbers say we're winning.
The streets say we're forgetting something.
I trust the streets.
Guangdong has continuously channeled its prosperity to the rest of the country,
so why is it that, in the end, even the streets of Guangzhou itself have begun to lose their vibrancy?
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@Feifei251024 My English has nothing to do with whether the point is right or wrong. You understood it, got triggered, and now you’re hiding behind grammar. That’s weaker than any non-native sentence on this platform.