Is the Past Better Than the Present?

Recently,a yearning for"nostalgia"has appeared in China—some people show an emotional love for the social climate of decades ago and a centrally planned economy featuring egalitarian distribution.From their point of view,society is not as good as it used to be.Song Huichang, a professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China,was asked by Beijing Daily to analyze the social phenomenon.