Countries all over the world have witnessed the rapid development of originality industry and huge economic benefits brought up by it. A global originality society and time for fortune has come. Creativity is another fortune in the new century after the chip technique and network information economy. What is originality? It is the new fortune in 21st century. If you are not creative, that means you are losing your future money.
From the network agreement of Open source to Open Nation, China’s originality industry has taken its global step and beat the mark of fortune explosion of Internet. The word openness itself has the context of modern China, which reflects the essence of the 21st century’s economy—fortune.
What is originality? Nowadays, Internet, newspapers, forums are all talking about the new economy and industry. What does originality on earth bring us and to China? Why do we so love it? Compared with the uproar of Internet 10 years ago, and the first reform and opening-up of China 30 years ago, and the cold shoulder the newly list of stock and securities suffered, the new originality economy and its rapid development in China is no longer strange at all. The world is developing, and Chinese people have more understanding on new things through 30 years’ reform and opening-up. From the first wave of going into business on the Gaodi Street of Guangzhou, to the overheating of Chinese stock market, and again to the network and creative media, it is concluded that new things can make a fortune. The Chinese government and people see the relations between creativity and economic prosperity. For example, a man named Jiang Nanchun, fixing a television screen on the door of an elevator, is put on the list of NASDAQ. Does Jiang Nanchun have some family background to support him? No. The answer is very simple: he has creativity. The late 80s famous writer, Guo Jingming ranks the first of the annual Chinese cultural nabobs, which makes the culture specialists feel nothing in the world is sure, and even the serious culture has put on the coat of money. Now, originality has been changing people’s minds and traditional ideas with an unimagined speed. In Shanghai, many old factories have changed completely, being bases of originality which have more development capacity than Kaiyue, and real estate agents, and investors all have great interest in them. The artists of Beijing 798 make the remote Songzhuang into a Louver of China, the biggest gathering place of art in the world.
Since the Qin dynasty, the cultural creators of China have never been the pioneers of times. Whereas, the reform and opening-up in 30 years and the global wave of originality industry turn the cultural creativity into treasure of the new century. Artists and creators become the favorites by government and investors in power. In the wave of cultural creativity, the Analects interpreted by Yu Dan, and the interpretation of the Three Kingdoms by Yi Zhongtian, are all put on the list of the Chinese cultural nabobs. A group of EMBAs gain their reputation and at the same time make a fortune. So in the wave of originality, local governments, such as Shanghai, Beijing, Shenshen, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, and Wuhan, attach great importance to the development of originality industry. They are all trying to be the leading one in the industry. All these waken our Chinese people from dreams: China has really stepped into a new era of creativity.
Originality is none other than fortune and money of the 21st century. The fast development high increase of originality of Britain, the getting rich in one night of Korea, the prosperous copyright industry of America, and the great interest of Chian’s main cities and officers in originality industry, all these uncover the secret of originality industry. If someone asks what originality is, the best answer is that it is money of the 21st century. If he still can not understand, you can tell him that originality is his money of today and future.
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Big Originality VS Small Nations
Originality Apocalypse
2007 A.D. Deane.Lachmann, the columnist of British Financial Times wrote: Now it is an era of small nations.
Looking at the fortune list of any country, small nations are in the ascendant. The list of nation’s per capital GDP announced by the IMF shows that in the most rich five countries in the world, the population of four of them is less than 5 million( except for the fourth America). The Global Peace Index worked out by the British Economist Intelligence Unit ranks nations based on the criteria of crimes, and the number of prisoners, showing that small nations also achieve good results. Obviously, the most peaceful country in the world is Norway ( Susre it is cold there). In the most peaceful 10 nations in the world, 8 of them have a population of less than 10 million. The World Economic Forum Competitiveness Index shows that in the most competitive 7 countries, the population of 5 of them is less than 10 million. According to life span and education, the Human Development Index makes a list indicating that there is only one big country in the top ten countries, that is, Japan.
500 B.C. Lao-tzu (a philosopher of China) wrote in Tao Te Ching : Small nations have small population. It is not necessary for their people to take vehicles such as boats and carriages. And there is no place for the display of weapons. People are living and working in peace and contentment. Neighboring nations can see each other, and even the crows of cocks and barks of dogs can be heard, but their people between the countries don’t contact each other.
The Development Tendency of Small Nations in 21st Century
According to Deane.Lachmann, in the times of globalization, “It is out of date to be proud of being big nations.”
Lachmann points out that in the past big countries have the advantages of prosperity and security, and free from aggression of other nations. Since the feudalism began in eastern and western countries, to be a big country has become a dream for every king. In the east, there are Qin Shihuang and Kang Xi the great; in the west, there are Alexander the great and Napoleon; and up to the middle age of modern society, there is Cold War between America and Soviet Russia. Thus, to be great is the main stream of a nation’s development and competitiveness. However, with the development of globalization, the share between Internet and technology, and the expansion of free trade, the previous borderline between nations and Araditional ideology are being replaced by the HDI(Human Development Index),HHI( Human Happiness Index), and Creative Index. And in its replacement, the integration of ecological environment and civilization will be the common topic of the 21st century. More concerns are put on humanism rather than on self-interests of a single country. It is seemed that people in the 21st century have the consciousness of peace and integration.
2,500 years ago, the first Zhou dynasty of China was spited into many small states, which led to the first explosion of cultural originality. Such movements included the contention among the Hundred Schools of Thoughts, the assembly of Confucianism, Taoism, Mo Tzu, and Legalism, which have great impact on Chinese culture. At that time, Lao-tzu proposed the thought of “small countries with small population”, and in Lao-Tzu’s view, reducing the scale of a nation can manage her people well, for they are all small states, none would have the desire for wars. Thus, people can live and work in peace and contentment, so as to live in harmony with nature.
After changes of thousands of years, mankind seems to have returned to Lao-Tzu’s ideal condition. Not only nations are smaller and smaller, but also individuals are more and more important. A person’s creative thought must be a sharing fruit of the whole world. No matter Microsoft, or ipod, or Face book, what influence the 21st century are all have something to do with individual creativity. And the global big events in the new century are often connected with a very small nation’s economy and politics. In the new century, small nations but huge influence has being the tendency.
The Era of Small Nations but Big Originality in Globalization
In the book The World Is Flat, Thomas L.Friedman tells us that the ten bulldozers for changing the world are removing the conventional barriers in old traditions. And the network technology is reaching everyone openly with a rapid speed, so as to maximize individuals’ creative values. In China, since the beginning of originality industry in 2004, it develops vigorously. Originality Medias, new cultural nabobs, and creative design institutions are rewriting the traditional fortunehistory rapidly.
Sweden, appearing to be common, has been a powerful originality country. It produces a gathering effect of industries; especially the film industry and music industry are outstanding. At present, Sweden is the third largest music exporter in the world, and the film industry is more successful. Many classical movies and movie geniuses are made and emerge. According to some statistics, about 9% of Swedish employees are working on cultural originality industry. And according to statistics of employees from 1994 to 1999, what develop most rapidly are design industry (the growth rate is 124%) and multi-media industry (the growth rate is 112%), followed by delicate art at the increase rate of 71%,( such as performing art, plane art, and literature). The development of Swedish cultural industry is centralized on cities, especially in Stockholm. With 1/5 of the country’s employees, Stockholm accounts for actually 1/3 of Sweden’s cultural industry employees, while in the dense cultural region, the educated people account for 73%, and even in non dense cultural regions, 53% of the population are educated. From this perspective, it is similar with Beijing of China whose employees working on cultural originality industry are 960,000.
