当前是西方经济发展的分水岭，面对时下惨淡的西方经济，需要深度审视社会结构，考虑是否需要采用不同的对策。西方尤其要学习中国模式的灵活性。在全球化的市场当中，最需要的就是灵活性。而西方人的意识形态色彩太重，缺乏灵活性是欧洲经济受挫的重要原因。
近些年来，很多声音说中国很多领域在本世纪可能会取代美国和西方， 要说中国在什么地方做得比西方更好，我们自己说了不算，还是让外国网友来回答比较客观。美国论坛网站就有网友发出这样的疑问：中国在哪些方面比西方做得更好? 我们来看看他们是怎么说的吧。
论坛话题
瑞典网友的观点
● China's speed. There has always been a mysterious speed in the world that goes beyond physics and is known by foreigners as "China speed”. In the spring of 2020, the epidemic was raging. China built and delivered the Huoshenshan Hospital in just ten days, saving the lives of thousands of Chinese people. "China speed" has also caught the world's attention greatly. In fact, this is just a microcosm of China's development and the speed of China.
●中国的速度。世界上一直有一种超越物理学的神秘速度，被外国人称为“中国速度”。2020年春天，疫情肆虐。中国仅用10天时间就建成并交付了火神山医院，挽救了数千名中国人民的生命。“中国速度”也引起了世界的高度关注。事实上，这只是中国发展和中国速度的一个缩影。
Back in 2017, a video of a digger demolishing an overpass in an eight-hour period shocked the world. The demolition of the Longwangmiao overpass in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, began at 9 PM on June 30, 2017, and was completed at 5 am on July 1. When Longyan Station was rebuilt in Fujian Province, more than 1,500 workers were put into construction at the command of the commander. It only took nine hours to complete all the operations. Even Tesla CEO Elon Musk praised that "China is developing advanced infrastructure more than 100 times faster than the United States."
早在2017年，一段挖掘机在8小时内拆除立交桥的视频震惊了世界。江西省南昌市龙王庙立交桥拆除工作于2017年6月30日晚9时开始，7月1日凌晨5时完成。福建龙岩车站重建时，在指挥员的指挥下，1500多名工人投入施工。完成所有操作只花了9个小时。特斯拉CEO埃隆·马斯克甚至称赞说:“中国发展先进基础设施的速度比美国快100倍以上。”
● Efficiency: China is a country that attaches great importance to efficiency. Efficiency embodies almost every aspect of Chinese life. Thanks to an extensive rail and road network, China's transportation is highly efficient. It takes only 4 hours to travel from Beijing to Shanghai. In some western countries, the 200km journey involves 4 train transfers. The Chinese government is also very efficient.
●效率:中国是一个非常注重效率的国家。效率几乎体现在中国人生活的方方面面。由于拥有广泛的铁路和公路网，中国的交通运输效率很高。从北京到上海只需要4个小时。在一些西方国家，200公里的旅程需要换乘4次火车。中国政府也非常有效率。
If you need to apply for documents,you can do it online, even if you have to go to the offline department,it only takes you one trip at most. Anyone who has bought online in China knows that China's express delivery efficiency is very high. It only takes three days at most for an express to arrive from Guangzhou to Beijing, and the average delivery efficiency is around 48 hours. In some Western countries, it may take you half a month to receive the goods.
如果您需要办理证件，您可以在网上办理，即使您需要到线下部门办理，最多也只需要跑一趟。在中国网购过的人都知道，中国的快递效率非常高。从广州到北京的快递最多只需要三天，平均配送效率在48小时左右。在一些西方国家，你可能需要半个月才能收到货物
● Social security: Generally speaking, security in China is much better than in western countries. In most cities in China, the nightlife is very rich. At eleven or twelve in the evening, the residents can have a leisurely stroll without worrying about violent attacks, shootings, explosions, drugs, terrorist attacks and other problems. That would be unthinkable in most countries. Also, Chinese culture seems to have a strong sense of equality, so I hardly ever see any women being harassed by Chinese men.
●社会保障:一般来说，中国的社会保障比西方国家要好得多。在中国的大多数城市，夜生活非常丰富。晚上十一、十二点，居民们可以悠闲地散步，不用担心*力暴**袭击、枪击、爆炸、*品毒**、恐怖袭击等问题。这在大多数国家是不可想象的。此外，中国文化似乎有很强的平等意识，所以我几乎没有看到任何女性被中国男性骚扰。
● De-monetization: Both foreigners and Chinese people acknowledge the fact that China has done the best and developed the fastest in terms of de-monetization. Eating, shopping, taking the bus and subway, watching movies, all these things as long as a mobile phone can complete the payment of any scene, there is no country in the world except China can do it.
●去货币化:外国人和中国人都承认，中国在去货币化方面做得最好，发展最快。吃饭、购物、坐公交地铁、看电影，所有这些事情只要一部手机就能完成任何场景的支付，世界上除了中国没有哪个国家能做到。
在中国生活的美国网友的观点
After living in China for the last few years, I feel that China is a very unique country. For example, the language is different, food is different, the whole culture is different. In fact, there are several aspects where China is doing better than the West.
在中国生活了几年之后，我觉得中国是一个非常独特的国家。例如，语言是不同的，食物是不同的，整个文化是不同的。事实上，中国在几个方面比西方做得更好。
#1. Cost of living is an important parameter for most of us. You can spend one month in Shanghai, one of the most expensive cities in China, for RMB 5,000/month/person. You gonna be poor in Seattle/California, even if you earn US $5,000/month (US $1= RMB 7).
# 1。生活成本对我们大多数人来说是一个重要的参数。你可以花5000元/月/人在中国最昂贵的城市之一上海度过一个月。在西雅图或加州，即使你每月赚5000美元(1美元= 7元人民币)，你也会很穷。
#2. Safety. When was the last mass shooting in China? Last terror attack? Illegal immigrants? Well, in terms of safety, as the western countries are becoming less and less safe, China is getting safer and safer. You just won't be allowed to disturb the social harmony.
# 2。安全。中国最近一起大规模枪击事件是什么时候?上次恐怖袭击?非法移民吗?嗯，在安全方面，当西方国家变得越来越不安全时，中国变得越来越安全。你就是不被允许扰乱社会和谐。
#3 Food: China offers a huge variety of traditional cuisine. Each province, and most of the cities, have their own distinguished food. You can grab a filling meal for RMB 20. I mean just compare with western pizza and burger, full of carbs, and ultimately the source of numerous diseases, obesity and diabetes.
食物:中国有各种各样的传统美食。每个省份和大多数城市都有自己独特的食物。你可以花20元吃顿饱饭。我的意思是，与西方的披萨和汉堡相比，它们充满了碳水化合物，最终导致了许多疾病，肥胖和糖尿病。
#4 How many western countries have the fast bullet trains? I can't believe Australian trains are so slow.
有多少西方国家拥有高速高铁?我不敢相信澳大利亚的火车这么慢。
#5 One language: one of the advantages of learning Mandarin Chinese is that you can use it almost everywhere in China. Everyone over here understands Mandarin. Imagine over 1.4bn people speaking the same language?
国语通用:学习普通话的好处之一是你几乎可以在中国的任何地方使用它。这里的每个人都懂普通话。想象一下超过14亿人说同样的语言?
#6 Dating and relationship: most of my expat friends in China have long forgotten western girls.
约会和关系:我在中国的大多数外籍朋友早就忘记了西方女孩。
#7 Cashless payments: in China, we generally don't carry paper money. Just bring your phone and scan the QR codes. In fact, now the facial recognition system is replacing the QR code system. No need to bring even the phone.
#7无现金支付:在中国，我们一般不携带纸币。带上你的手机，扫描二维码就可以了。事实上，现在面部识别系统正在取代二维码系统。连手机都不用带。
#8 Travelling: China offers wonderful historical sites. There are over 50 UNESCO world heritage sites in China, the highest in the world.
旅游:中国有很多精彩的历史遗迹。中国有超过50处联合国教科文组织世界遗产，是世界上最多的。
#9 China is a peace-loving country. It doesn't go out to capture Vietnam and the Korean peninsula. When was the last time China fought a war? The US is still messing up in Iraq and Afghanistan. In January, Iran war looked almost a certainty (when General Qasem Soleimani was gone). Maybe Covid-19 avoided Iran fiasco.
中国是一个爱好和平的国家。它不会去占领越南和朝鲜半岛。中国上次打仗是什么时候?美国仍在伊拉克和阿富汗搞得一团糟。今年1月，伊朗战争看起来几乎是必然的(当时卡西姆·苏莱曼尼将军已经不在了)。也许衣情避免了伊朗的惨败。
#10 When the western countries are losing past glories, China is a rising star. About 40 years ago, the Chinese economy was struggling and the US was the superpower. Now the story is quite different. China is driving the world economy, and the US has lost its political hegemony, especially under Trump administration.
当西方国家失去过去的辉煌时，中国是一颗冉冉升起的明星。大约40年前，中国经济苦苦挣扎，而美国是超级大国。现在的情况完全不同了。中国正在推动世界经济，而美国已经失去了政治霸权，尤其是在特朗普政府的领导下。
China has seen tremendous social issues in its 5000 years long history. Gone are the days! Time has changed…
在中国5000年的历史长河中，出现了巨大的社会问题。那些日子一去不复返了!时代变了……
No nation can bully China!I look forward to a more balanced global power structure.
没有哪个国家能欺负中国!我期待一个更加平衡的全球权力结构。
美国网友的观点
One thing that doesn’t get talked about is how well China has managed to avoid the kind of cultural atomization that the internet age has brought about in the Western world.
有一件事没有被提及，那就是中国如何成功地避免了互联网时代在西方世界带来的那种文化原子化
This is a weird one to explain. Hold on.
这解释起来有点奇怪。等一等。
Before the internet, American mainstream culture was mainstream. Unless you paid for cable, there were only a dozen or so channels to watch on TV and only about 3 or 4 of them presented political programming like news or talk shows.
在互联网出现之前，美国的主流文化是主流。除非你付费收看有线电视，否则电视上只有十几个频道，其中只有三四个是政治节目，比如新闻或谈话节目。
Believe it or not, there was a time when parents and kids in the US shared roughly the same world view and wouldn’t try to murder each other 5 minutes into any political discussion.
信不信由你，曾经有一段时间，美国的父母和孩子有着大致相同的世界观，不会试图在任何zz讨论的5分钟内谋杀对方。
Fringe ideas like anti-vax, flat-earth, creationism etc. were not given a voice (at least not a credible one). This kept the nation on the same page culturally. And given that most families shared a TV or two, kids and parents consumed the same content, ensuring cultural continuity between generations.
像反疫苗、地球是平的、神创论等边缘思想没有被给予发言权(至少不是一个可信的声音)。这让这个国家在文化上保持了一致。考虑到大多数家庭共用一台或两台电视，孩子和父母消费的内容是相同的，确保了几代人之间的文化连续性。
The internet and smartphones have changed all this. Americans now all live in their own personal cultural bubble. Families no longer agree on the same basic set of facts because everyone has a algorithm-driven, highly personalized social media feed selling them a completely unique world view. This has lead to political polarization, social dissonance, and societal breakdown. There is no such thing as “mainstream culture” anymore in the US, or much of the Western world.
互联网和智能手机改变了这一切。美国人现在都生活在自己的个人文化泡泡里。家庭成员不再对同一组基本事实达成一致，因为每个人都有一个由算法驱动的、高度个性化的社交媒体信息，向他们出售完全独特的世界观。这导致了zz两极分化、社会不和谐和社会崩溃。在美国或西方世界的大部分地区，已经没有所谓的“主流文化”了。
In China, there are more smartphones and internet users than anywhere else in the world, but mainstream culture is still very mainstream.
在中国，智能手机和互联网用户比世界上任何地方都多，但主流文化仍然非常主流。
There’s still a huge cultural generational gap for sure, but not nearly at the same level as in the West. Parents and kids can at least still agree on things like how many genders there are, and whether or not vaccines will cause autism.
当然，这里仍然存在着巨大的文化代沟，但与西方的水平相差甚远。父母和孩子至少还能在一些问题上达成一致，比如有多少性别，以及疫苗是否会导致自闭症。
Another seemingly excessive rule in Chinese entertainment is that video games are not allowed to depict real world nations fighting each other. This is why games use pseudo flags or pseudo names to represent real nations. The goal here is to minimize violent nationalism.
中国娱乐中另一条看似过分的规定是，电子游戏不允许描绘现实世界中国家之间的争斗。这就是为什么游戏使用伪旗帜或伪名字来代表真实的国家。这里的目标是尽量减少*力暴**民族主义。
Of course, every Westerner reading this is furiously typing: oMg that SOUnds lIKE an oRwElLIAn nIgHtmARE!!!
当然，每个西方人看到这篇文章都会疯狂地输入:天哪，这听起来像一个奥威尔式的噩梦!!
Of course it does to you. You’ve been brainwashed from birth to believe that freedom of speech and expression is somehow sacrosanct. You can’t actually present a logical justification for why there should be total freedom of speech, you just believe it axiomatically.
当然对你有影响。你从出生起就被*脑洗**，相信言论自由是神圣不可侵犯的。你实际上不能为为什么应该有完全的言论自由提出一个合乎逻辑的理由，你只是想当然地相信它。
I’m not going to try and convince you that you’re wrong. That is impossible, because this is your religion. I can no more convince a nun that God isn’t real than I can convince you that freedom of speech has no practical benefit to society.
我不会试图说服你你错了。那是不可能的，因为这是你的信仰。我无法说服一个修女相信上帝是不存在的，就像我无法说服你相信言论自由对社会没有实际好处一样。
Just know that the ultimate result of your sacred “freedom of speech” is a world where your mother is your mortal ideological enemy, and the only people who share your particular world view are all in the same subreddit.
你只需要知道，你神圣的“言论自由”的最终结果是，在一个世界里，你的母亲是你致命的意识形态敌人，唯一和你有相同世界观的人都在同一个reddit版块里。
美籍华人网友的观点
China can build major infrastructure better and much faster than the West, since they don’t have to worry about organized protests and paid saboteurs. Organized groups can not delay projects unless there would be a good reason for it.
中国可以比西方更好更快地建设主要的基础设施，因为他们不必担心有组织的抗议和付钱的破坏者。有组织的团队不能推迟项目，除非有充分的理由。
But in Western countries, democracy often can be a hindrance not a helper when it comes to building major infrastructure. Let’s say in today’s times, you plan to construct a new bridge across the Hudson River in New York City.
但在西方国家，当涉及到大型基础设施建设时，民主往往会成为障碍而不是帮助。假设在当今时代，你计划在纽约市的哈德逊河上建造一座新桥。
The project would need to be approved by countless local bureaucratic agencies even at the planning stages, before construction workers appear on site.
即使在规划阶段，在建筑工人出现在工地之前，该项目也需要得到无数地方官僚机构的批准。
Government approvals are not sufficient, just the beginning stage when all the documents are compiled and certified by accountants, lawyers and agencies, so they can allow a company to propose the project at the City Council, which they must vote on.
政府的批准还不够，只是一个开始阶段，所有的文件都是由会计师、律师和机构编制和认证的，这样他们就可以允许公司在市议会上提出项目，而他们必须投票表决。
All City Council meetings are required to be public hearings, permitting local residents to observe them and voice complaints. That explains why many City Council meetings are noisy, because protesters will appear and demand the project get shut down.
市议会的所有会议都必须是公开听证会，允许当地居民旁听并提出投诉。这就解释了为什么许多市议会会议都很吵闹，因为抗议者会出现，要求关闭该项目。
By proposing a bridge over the Hudson, you have many local construction companies bidding for the project as well and if the City Council had refused to let them to participate in it, they will hire protesters to disrupt public hearings in order to delay approval of the project until the company that’s considered to be the winning bidder offers its rival bidders part of the government contracts.
通过提议在哈德逊河上建一座桥，你有很多当地的建筑公司也在竞标这个项目，如果市议会拒绝让他们参与，他们就会雇佣抗议者扰乱公开听证会，以推迟项目的批准，直到被认为是中标者的公司向竞争对手提供部分合同。
Hence, you will have another 2-3 years before the City Council, State Government and Federal Government greenlight the project. But still it will take another seven years before construction workers can start work. That’s because the firm winning the project must hire environmental experts to write up detailed reports explaining why the bridge is good for the ecology of New York.
因此，在市议会、州政府和联邦政府批准该项目之前，您还有2-3年的时间。但是，建筑工人还需要7年时间才能开工。这是因为赢得这个项目的公司必须聘请环保专家撰写详细的报告，解释为什么这座桥对纽约的生态有好处
The so-called consultants will visit the proposed work site, measure the air and water quality, assign pollsters to interview people living or working area nearby, set more public hearings to invite anyone to voice their criticisms and write numerous reports and filing out legal documents.
所谓的顾问将访问拟议的工作地点，测量空气和水的质量，指派*意民**调查人员采访居住或工作在附近的人，举行更多的公开听证会，邀请任何人发表批评意见，撰写大量报告并提交法律文件。
So we are talking a minimum of 10 years from the moment a company hires a team of engineers and architects to design a Hudson River bridge before construction workers start building it, but of course the company can only hire local union workers and you have rival contractors who will be upset they were not assigned the contract, so they will launch another round of protests claiming the project is anti-Union even if the allegations are false.
所以我们说的是从一家公司雇佣一组工程师和建筑师在建筑工人开始建造哈德逊河大桥的那一刻起至少10年，但当然，公司只能雇佣当地工会工人，而你的竞争对手承包商会因为没有获得合同而感到不满，所以他们会发起另一轮抗议，声称该项目是反工会的，即使指控是错误的。
Therefore, 12 years becomes the norm for a bridge design to break ground for the construction phase, but in New York you have labor unions that sometimes play dirty too. They will delay construction to force the company to pay more money to the Union contractor. The construction phase of the bridge may go on for another 10 years, but likely much longer.
因此，从桥梁设计到施工阶段破土动工，通常需要12年时间，但在纽约，工会有时也会耍卑鄙手段。他们将推迟施工，迫使公司向工会承包商支付更多的钱。这座桥的建设阶段可能会再持续10年，但很可能会更长。
So to make the dream of a bridge become reality in New York could take about a 30 years, while the same project in China would take no more than 2-3 years.
因此，在纽约实现一座桥的梦想可能需要30年的时间，而同样的项目在中国只需要2-3年。