social influence: 2.5
controversy:3.5
key word: bowl/noodle
Lanzhou (lanchow), northern city of China, a population of over 3 million. Lanzhou noodle, famous in China.
In the morning of 3, July, all noodle-shop owners received an official decree. They gazed at the paper, astonished.
“All noodle contained in large bowls should sold under 2.5 yuan, in smaller bowls sold 0.2 yuan less.”
That’s what on the paper, as seriously as a Hue and Cry. The news soon spread to all over China, thus lit a mass of arguments, debate, critics.
Some frowned to it as a return of controlled economy, the hands of government even approaching to a small bowl of noodle. Local Price Bureau was soon under reproach from scholars and netizens. But authority refused to concede, “Noodle plays an important role in our daily life, we have duty to make it affordable.”
Lanzhou citizens, under focus, also divided into two groups. A cook grumbled their profit had been repressed to almost none. And more people protested governments’ interference into free market with administration policy, some even tagged this a drawback in progress to market-economy. However, a considerable number of native stood with authority, saying they could not afford such an expensive life without control.
What happened? Is China, a novice, ready to embrace a free market?
---------noodle case, well-known, still under hot discussion.
In the morning of 3, July, all noodle-shop owners received an official decree. They gazed at the paper, astonished.
“All noodle contained in large bowls should sold under 2.5 yuan, in smaller bowls sold 0.2 yuan less.”
That’s what on the paper, as seriously as a Hue and Cry. The news soon spread to all over China, thus lit a mass of arguments, debate, critics.
Some frowned to it as a return of controlled economy, the hands of government even approaching to a small bowl of noodle. Local Price Bureau was soon under reproach from scholars and netizens. But authority refused to concede, “Noodle plays an important role in our daily life, we have duty to make it affordable.”
Lanzhou citizens, under focus, also divided into two groups. A cook grumbled their profit had been repressed to almost none. And more people protested governments’ interference into free market with administration policy, some even tagged this a drawback in progress to market-economy. However, a considerable number of native stood with authority, saying they could not afford such an expensive life without control.
What happened? Is China, a novice, ready to embrace a free market?
---------noodle case, well-known, still under hot discussion.
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