What do Chinese people envision as the best life?
January 2, 2012Jing Gao10 Commentsbest life, cab driver, cabbie, children, civil servant, civil service exam, Food safety, freedom, migrant workers, Net Ease, New Year's Day, second generation, white-collar worker
What kind of life do Chinese people desire the most in the new year? The news documentary featuring interviews with six ordinary Chinese people from all walks of life was produced by Chinese news portal Net Ease as a tribute to year 2011 and translated into English by Ministry of Tofu.






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[...] Ministry of Tofu translates a documentary video produced by Chinese news portal Net Ease on Chinese people's envision of [...]
Isn’t it wonderful to become a corrupted government official.
Thank you for translating! Very nice
Thanks for taking the time to translate. I enjoyed it a lot.
Am I missing something? Both those videos are in Chinese. Where is the English translation?
Hello, Billy! We have translated the video from Chinese to English and provided the subtitles as the Youtube annotations. You might have turned off the annotations. To view English subtitles, you need to click on the speech bubble icon to turn it back on.
Jing, thanks for your reply. It appears you can’t enable YouTube annotations on iPad, which is why I didn’t see this option. Thanks for posting the video, watched it on another computer and was very moved.
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Thanks for the video, very well done.
Interesting to see the young people of China are seeing the facts of life.
The same happens here in the US,,, .
Sam.
they should interview government officials sons where they blow $15,000 USD a night drinking and think pink is a cool color for a Lamborghini.