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Wealth Flaunt: a Coming Monster Nowadays, Chinese rich youngsters are crazy about luxury products — imported French handbags and perfume, Italian sports cars and so on. They pursue the latest fashion and travel in their private jets. They spoil plenty of money on such luxury products instead of making donations to the poor via charities. What’s more, the newly rich young people prefer to flaunt their wealth with posting pictures of their luxury products or making some comments about their extravagant life on the Internet. A typical example is concerning a Chinese girl called Guo Meimei. Guo Meimei has become a recent Internet sensation in China recently and a prompted national scandal when she posted photos of herself on her own micro blog posing with her collections of imported Hermes handbags and showing off her white Mercedes sports car and her boyfriend’s orange Lamborghini car. Her pretentious behavior irritated the majority of internet users, and spelled innumerable criticism for herself. It seems to be creating headaches for Chinese governmental officials who are facing growing discontent over a widening income gap after three decades of exhorting their residents to get rich. Without any doubt, wealth flaunt will sharpen the annoying situation. Obviously, such behavior will be an obstacle to the ultimate establishment of a harmonious and sustainable society. Why does wealth flaunt become increasingly common? From my point of view, wealth flaunt is not an isolated and pure phenomenon. Wealth flaunt is linked to our some twisted values and our country’s some existing economic policy. On one hand, since China embarked on the path of Reform and Opening-up, the speed of economy growth is always very highly sharp in China and the income level of the residents also improves quickly. But the fear is that we have noticed a decline of moral values. A small part of the population has become money-oriented. They possess a lot of money, but they misunderstand the true val