House for Chinese People

House plays a very important role of Chinese people’s life, which means “Home” sometimes. Thousands of us think lack of sense of safety without it. Unmarried ladies even add it into the list when looking for a guy to get married, which is one of the symbol of treasure. But before 1990s, Chinese need not pay for their house, government or the company will evaluate according the length of service, position, members of family and so on, then decide who could get the 30-40 square meter room for free (more than 20 people on the same floor will share the washing room). So you could see that our parents only had their private room when they were 40. With the developing of reforming and opening-up policy, government found that real estate could stimulate the economy perfectly, so canceled this free policy. People even youth could have their own house with 20-30% deposit, then loan refunding to bank monthly lasting for 10 even 30 years. The loan will take 30-40% of the whole family income one year. While the friendship among neighbors who sharing the washing room before are facing challenge strongly. The residence on 8th floor does not know what the name of next door is, what he is doing. So it happened before that the thief unclenched the door and moved out the furniture, the neighbor said hi to them in elevator and asked what the new house is located.

Karen