The era is reversed. Nowadays, people in China laugh at foreigners, mocking them for not having mobile payments, no high-speed rail with all connections, no takeaways that are still operating in the middle of the night, and no outrageously convenient online shopping.
In the past, Chinese people who are abroad were showing off their brides to their relatives in China, saying that this is called card payment, and they don’t need to bring cash. Now domestic relatives tell their compatriots overseas that this is called QR code payment, which is called face-scanning payment.
Edinburgh, England, the urban life full of fireworks
is obvious. On the surface, today's Europe and the United States are indeed lagging behind China in terms of lifestyle. No wonder whenever there are compatriots abroad who like Europe and the United States, they always attract a bunch of Chinese people to laugh at them - rustic bullies.
So, are cash payments and relatively lagging e-commerce in Europe and the United States really a rustic?
Let me put it this way. As a mature economy, whether it is the United States or the United Kingdom, the so-called lag in the development of e-commerce is actually intentional.
What is the first thing to solve in a country?
The most common employment under the premise of orderly inheritance of culture.
Nanchang Yingshi Square, no one, even the store is gone
We Nanchang more than a dozen large complexes are displayed in all directions of the city like dead bodies. The pedestrian streets are like dead snakes. These economic and cultural carriers that should have solved the employment of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people and greatly drive Holiday Economic are now washed away by e-commerce. A commercial complex that can best stimulate cultural heritage and human feelings inheritance has become the dead body of the city in the so-called e-commerce era.
So what about in the UK? E-commerce accounts for four to five percent of the overall economy. In other words, face-to-face transactions between shopping malls, stores, customers and merchants, artists and craftsmen are using the warmest way to achieve the healthiest development model of the national economy.
In China, an e-commerce merchant has no store and does not need to hire workers. He accepts orders with a mouse on the Internet and transfers them to manufacturers and farmers to complete the sales process. On the street and in the commercial complex, there were a huge number of shops empty, and the old clerks in the past were idle.
As the world's second largest country in population, China is empty on the streets during holidays, and everyone orders takeout at home and shops online.
Don’t go out unless necessary. This is a slogan we shouted after the outbreak of the new crown epidemic. In fact, our young people have long been practicing this idea.
less than eight o'clock, this tea and food agency closed down
With e-commerce online ordering and shopping, young people stay at home after work, and the whole country has lost their sweet encounters and no sour love. Not getting married and having few births have become the mainstream of young people's lives. All this comes from the so-called developed e-commerce that we Chinese are proud of.
I miss my life in the UK very much. Even if I buy a pack of candy cubes, I must go to the shop and take the goods home from the shop in a warm conversation with the clerk.
On the surface, Europe and the United States are indeed lagging behind China in life, but their lifestyle is most in line with the people's employment, encounters love and marriage, and the most in line with the actual needs of sustainable development and sustainable prosperity.