Streamline rush to modernity

As a Chinese, it is difficult for us to gain an overall insight into our motherland with its vast territory, diverse culture, different groups with widening wealth gap, isolated urban and rural communities, various political appeals and even discordant social conflicts. Chunyun, or the Spring Festival travel season, is such an intrinsic problem in China's transformation from a traditional society to a modern one and a window through which observers all over the world can view social changes in China.

Along with the pace of the reform and opening-up, chunyun has begun to enter the daily lives of ordinary Chinese people, deriving a special kind of social and political implication. China's economic reform and opening-up has released countless rural young labor forces, making the large-scale and cross-regional flow of human capital a normal social behavior.

The most essential problem, here, is that the frequent population flow is impacting the original social structure and management, which has evolved into an issue for China's modernism. Jrgen Habermas, a public intellectual, interpreted the connotation of modernity as an unfinished cause. Indeed, China's modernity is a great national undertaking with constant progress, reflecting the ultimate pursuit of the Chinese nation.