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My Chinese Dream

----Everyone Owns a House

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Martin Luther King had a dream that one day black men could be equally treated because all men were created equal. Today, I have a dream, a Chinese dream that everyone could have a house.

Have you ever seen a movie called Finding Mr. Right? The Chinese version is ¡°±±¾©ÓöÉÏÎ÷ÑÅͼ¡±. Yeah, you know. The leading female actress really liked the male lead¡¯s home in Seattle. She was surprised to learn how expensive his house was as it only cost 500,000 dollars which is about 4 million Yuan. This amount only allows you to buy 2 toilets on the Second Ring Road of Beijing.

In China, generally speaking, a house will cost 74 years¡¯ income of an average Chinese. However, according to the United Nations, a reasonable price of a house should be an average man¡¯s income of 3-6 years. What a sharp contrast!

I have a 28-year-old cousin who has reached marriage age. He had a girlfriend. So it was time that they had got married. However, his girlfriend asked him to buy a house before marriage. Of course a house became somewhat a luxury for an ordinary worker like him and his father. The result, as you can imagine, is "Gone with his romantic love" because of a house.

It strikes me that in the future I will be worried about affording a house, too. Maybe I will also pinch and scrape my whole life in order to purchase a house. Maybe

I will get trapped in a pathetic situation where my love wanders about, like a homeless person, could not find a shelter from the rough rain and wind. How pathetic!

As the proverb goes, an Englishman's house is his castle. So, I have a dream, a Chinese dream that one day every Chinese is able to have his own castle.