First of all, I can speak from a fair perspective. When you say countryside and city, you actually mean the place where you were born and raised, not your current residence. If you live now, you may all be cities. In that case, I am neither a country nor a city, because I grew up on a farm. Farm is a special social model in China. Like cities, farm work is factory-managed. Workers are paid, engaged in the same agricultural production in rural areas, facing the loess, which is a model between rural areas and cities. So I'm basically an outsider. Listen to me, it should be right.
Secondly, I live in the city now, surrounded by city people, but I am engaged in the management of agricultural investment projects, and I often go to the countryside to meet a large number of farmers. The project itself is also an agricultural matter. I know both the city and the countryside very well, better than anyone who has never lived in the city or the countryside.
I don't know which part of China you mean by countryside and city. In some areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, "city people" is synonymous with people without money, where city people are ashamed to compare. Of course, in most parts of China, rural areas lag far behind cities. This is also an indisputable fact, and this is not the issue we are arguing about. The problems we are arguing can be divided into two categories. First, the problem of ability. Urban people say that rural people's ability is poor, while rural people say it is not bad, even stronger than urban people. The second is quality and living habits, and cities naturally despise rural people.
The first question, the ability problem. If you know about rural life, you should know that rural areas are mostly inferior to cities in terms of infrastructure, cultural life and educational environment, and the gap is quite large. However, this gap is mainly caused by national policies. For many years, China has been subsidizing industrial development with agricultural income, and most of the tax revenue has been used to develop urban infrastructure. City residents should look at their spacious roads, squares and parks, and never despise that there is nothing in the countryside, because you didn't build those facilities yourself. Farmers must voluntarily build roads in rural areas, and they must also pay for the installation of electricity and the opening of schools. When to build roads and turn on electricity in the city, people in the city should be allowed to contribute. This is a policy issue. The same is true of education. There are several teachers who graduated from key normal schools in rural areas. The learning environment of rural people from kindergarten, primary school, junior high school and senior high school is worse than that of cities. How far is it to go to school in the city? It is common for rural children to walk ten miles and eight miles to school. There is a simple truth. In many places, it costs money to change rural hukou into urban hukou, ranging from 1 to 20,000, which shows that both urban people and rural people are valuable from birth, but this is caused by policies and has nothing to do with the personal efforts of urban people. Most of the people who participate in the discussion online are college graduates. City people should think about it. If rural graduates discuss this issue with you, you will fail, because they take advantage of the worse environmental conditions than you, take the same position as you now, and discuss this issue as you do. This shows that they are better than you.
At work, I have an experience in recent years that personal ability has little to do with being born in the city or the countryside. Basically, it has something to do with personal quality and education level, even the education level is not very great. The English of the college students who have graduated now is ok, and their computer level can cope with office work, but their professional level doesn't know what they did at school. Alas, this is also a social problem. Personal quality and studious spirit play a decisive role in business ability. Whoever knows how to study and work better at work will have stronger working ability.
The second problem is quality and living habits. Needless to say, I have been in contact with urban people and rural people for many years, and the overall feeling is: in contrast, urban people are narrow-minded and more emotional; People with low education in rural areas are often greedy for money. The best friends are those who grew up in the countryside and received higher education. Hehe, so after years of elimination, many of my friends now are such people. After all, a friend who can help at a critical moment is a true friend, and icing on the cake is useless.
In terms of living habits, the countryside is inferior to the city. I often go to the countryside to see children's faces. This is not because your road is dirty and dusty. There is always water. It is not enough for children to change a suit every day. You must take a bath twice a day. In rural areas, the requirements are low, and clothes are changed only once every few days. But when they arrive in the city, they can basically adapt to the new environment within a year or two, which is related to their educational level and age. But there are also some people who have not kept pace with the times. A former friend of mine graduated from a key university in southwest China, and his living conditions in the countryside are quite good. He also worked in this city for many years. I went to his house one day, and he managed to make his house so messy. I really admire him.
On the whole, I suggest you stop having opinions about regions and places of origin. When you have this idea, you are a laggard.