王宝强许三多的英语作文许三多士兵突击后的感想
Two years ago, Wang Baoqiang was a nobody. He would stand
in front of the Beijing Film Studio everyday, waiting for
a chance to play a tiny part in any film. Now, the 23-
year-old is a household name. His character Xu Sanduo in
Soldier Sortie has catapulted him to stardom.
Wang, the youngest of a poor farming family, left his home
in Hebei Province at 8 to study kungfu at the Shaolin
Temple. At 15, he went to Beijing to pursue a future that
seemed impossible from the window of his village. After
much hard work, he won a role in Blind Shaft, a job his
childhood pals would never have imagined possible.
Success like Wang's is the dream of many young Chinese.
They have left their mundane lives, chasing a better
future than the one their parents' generation lived. Like
Wang, some made it and now have a fatter wallet and higher
social status.
Moving up
In other words, they are the beneficiaries of social
mobility. According to social scientists, social mobility
is an individual's or a group's movement through the
socio-economic structure of a society over time.
It is measured by comparing the social class origin of an
individual (usually determined by their parents' social
class) against their social class classification as an
adult.
Fu Yong, a professor at the China Center for Economic
Studies at Fudan University, believes social mobility
helps keep society stable. "It provides opportunities for
people at the grassroots level to climb the social ladder.
If the disadvantaged see no hope for the future, they will
rebel," said Fu.
China's fast development offers paths for the young to
rise, said Sun Liping, a professor of sociology at
Tsinghua University. "Traditionally, education and
marriage help people change their economic status," said
Sun. "Starting their own business is another choice."
Education the key
Sun believes education is the main way for young people to
move upward in society. In 2006, 22 percent of Chinese
young people of college age were studying at university,
according to a Ministry of Education report. By 2010, the
figure will be 25 percent. liuxuepaper.com
Education is directly related to economic status. The 2005
Report on the Development of Chinese Society by Renmin
University suggests that those whose salary is above
15,000 yuan a year are mainly higher education graduates.
People with a yearly salary of less than 6,500 yuan tend
to be those who left school at junior high level.
"Higher education makes a major difference in young
people's development. Students go away with improved
skills," said Tian Qiuhua, deputy dean of the education
department of Guangzhou University. "It is a vital aid for
eventual entry into a higher social class."
However, the cooling of the job market in recent years has
weakened education's role in lifting a person's economic
and social status. College graduates are finding it's
becoming more difficult to find a job with a decent
salary.
ChinaHR.com, a leading recruitment website, says salaries
of graduates in 2007 have dropped 7.1 percent compared
with 2006. "As competition gets harsher in cities, it is
no longer easy for young entrants into the labor market to
land jobs that pay high wages," said Fu Yong at Fudan
University.
But many young people still has faith in mobility. "There
were always opportunities," said Xu Konglong, a student
majoring in civil engineering in Shantou University.
"Society permits its rare talents to flourish regardless
of their situation."
生词:
catapult 投,抛
mundane 平凡的
beneficiary 受益人
grassroots 草根的
entrant 新到者
Soldier Sortie 士兵突击