"Villagers are competing to send their children to study in counties and cities. Only in this way, they believe, will they be able to live well, because otherwise people will laugh at them."
Zhang Zejun, a villager of Yongcun village, Jiexian county, Southwest China's Sichuan province, talks about the"keeping up with the Jones" mentality in Chinese villages.
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