Indeed, there have been many smaller “booms” – in consumption, foreign direct investment, domestic stock markets, trade, travel, overseas study, military modernization, and international diplomacy. There is also a boom in pollution and toxic waste, and booming interest in religion – from Buddhism to Pentecostal Christianity – and in Confucian philosophy.
繁荣于20世纪70年代末到80年代始于乡下，随之而来的就是今天以工业为主导的城市发展。事实上，在消费、国外直接投资、国内股票市场、贸易、旅游、海外留学、军事现代化和国际外交等领域，同样经历了许多小规模的“繁荣”。污染和有毒废物排放也大为增长，同样大涨的还有人们对宗教的兴趣——从佛教到基督教——还有孔子的儒家哲学。今天的中国很少谈及“克制”二字。