Do we really know the poor?

There seems to be a wall in the society. People who have the right to speak are lack of some basic understanding for the real life of those low-income groups. Fashion, noble life styles are filling the newspapers, television and other media while not that much people are caring the poor.

We all know that the price of pork keeps rising, but do you know which part of the pig products rose on the most?

My mom told me that she went to buy meat the other day and the meat price rose another 50 fen, she could not help but complain: "why the price rises every other day?" The seller said, "We don’t want to do that as well. But the water, electricity and gas bills are going up; we can’t live if we don’t raise the meat price. Moreover, the meat is not raising the most." Another customer complained, "Isn’t it? It cost no more than 5 yuan per kilogram last year but now it costs 13 yuan. It has risen more than twice!" The meat seller said, "The pig fat was 2 yuan last year but now is 8 yuan per kilo. It has rose four times" The customers are a bit surprised. The seller kept speaking. "The poor can not afford to buy the lean pork but still they need some meat. The more people need, the more the product costs. It is a natural rule."

My mom said in her childhood, when people were buying meat they always requested “fat meat”. Pig fat is very popular at that time. Sometimes it was almost a symbol of a privilege. Later, as the improvement of people's living standard, people began to buy pure meat. Only some small restaurants buy pig fat meat to fry oil to cut the costs. What is unexpected is that 30 years later, pig fat meat became “popular” again.

There seems to be a wall in the society. People who have the right to speak are lack of some basic understanding for the real life of those low-income groups. Fashion, noble life styles are filling the newspapers, television and other media while not that much people are caring the poor, and the consequence is that when the government and people who sincerely wanted to help the weak, they are helpless for the ignorance.

Live Lives

In the afternoon of December 28, the wife of the famous host, Hu Ziwei, complained her husband’s affair at the scene of renaming CCTV Channel 5 to Olympic channel conference.

As we can see from the video later, if the scenes were staged in a county, it is estimated that the woman must have already rolling crying on the ground. But in the Beijing Shangri-La Hotel, it seems Hu Ziwei was fairly calm, although “it seems”.

From the various inspection reports, Hu Ziwei never unabashed of her love to her husband Zhang Bin. Hu Ziwei always has a big smile on her face in their pictures, while it appears that Zhang Bin is always trying to keep some distance.

It is not a short time for their marriage. It seems that everything is going right before this shocking moment. From the beginning of January 2007, you can see many interviews about Hu Ziwei in many newspapers, magazines on her family and job. They are all filled with happiness. But why this shocking moment happened so suddenly?

This may have something to do with the changes of Hu’s work. A few months ago, she left the “Shenbian” program which was founded by her own. She is no longer the producer and host. It is said that the reason is about her report about “the paper steamed bread” and her critic on the Haier. But only the Beijing TV Station would know the real answer - and it certainly would not tell.

Neither would Hu herself tell. The host lost the opportunities to be on the screen just as laid-off. It is needless to say the her frustration. The real problem will probably be seen when she become idle.

Someone has asked her whether she worry about her family as she is so busy. She said, “my husband is very busy too. I can be so busy just because I know my family is very stable. If there is something wrong with my family, then I would be broken down.”

It is said that Zhang Bin’s father is a senior official who served as secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee. If this is true, then this kind of thing does not seem to be in his possession. A child has such family background is generally low-key, modest and good at controlling the overall situation. However, when the thing happened, he was clearly unable to control the situation.

The ex-wife of Zhang Bin is also in the television field. When Hu Ziwei came to know Zhang Bin, he was still living with his ex-wife. After the big issue couple days ago, many people ridiculed Hu Ziwei saying that she herself was a third party before.

If you are an ordinary person, this kind of thing does not commit mass destruction, on the contrary can only prove that you are charming. However, Zhang Bin is a public figure, the public bear less moral standards of this, and the public may have addiction to the public figures’ private lives.

I think more embarrassing character in such event is CCTV. The scene was broadcasting live, and many bigwigs from CCTV, sports, and media were all there. The video on the CCTV website was soon deleted, and several other news on other websites were deleted later, but there are some preserved, then they spread to the whole world. By now, in addition to the rise of the video clicks, there are many overseas media have already reported it in details on this matter, while the original renaming Olympic Channel was not a big deal at all.

Unexpectedly in the last few days of 2007 we can still see such a scene which includes a set of lies, revenge and suspense…… No matter how brilliant the screen is, it would never be as interesting as life itself.