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1990s Children Moral, Self-aware and Tech-Savvy The 1990s generation has been in the news spotlight for a while, but little professional research or investigation about them has been reported. Recently, Sun Yunxiao, deputy director of the China Youth and Children Research Center and Sun Hongyan, associate research fellow of the research center, publicized part of the Investigation Report on the Development??of Children in China (2005). It is said that this report was conducted following the 1999 version. It reported the research on over 4,000 teenagers and children between the ages of 6 and 14 in Beijing, Shanghai, and the provinces Guangdong, Yunnan, Gansun and Henan. All of them were born in the 1990s. Sun Yunxiao therefore believed that this report could give an accurate description of the 1990s generation in the country. Multi-value Oriented This investigation indicated that the 1990s generation held high opinions about morality. They highly recognized many traditional moral values, such as kindness, honesty, bravery, faith, dutifulness, as well as some modern spirits, such as tolerance, confidence and responsibility. But they have their own shortcomings. They still need to improve in some important qualities of modern society, such as teamwork, concept of time and devotion, Sun Hongyan said. She said the 1990s generation hoped to achieve their life values from different aspects. In this survey, when asked: what do you think is the most important aspect of your life, most of them chose health, virtue, family and friendship, while many others chose a positive mood, dignity and a successful career. This reflects their various needs and earnest wishes for a bright future, Sun Hongyan said. In correspondence to that, their thoughts on happiness were diverse too. Among the choices in this research, achieving goals amounted to 48.7 percent and improving grades in school amounted to 42.4 percent were chosen as the happiest things. Being respected (39.2 percent) and