Today, a girl from Hefei sent me a message.

This is the best summer of her life.
This year, 长鑫 went public, and the hotel where she works was filled with celebration banquets.
She also followed her boyfriend’s advice, who works at 长鑫, and used all of her savings to buy 长鑫 stock—earning in a single day the equivalent of five years of wages.
This year, her salary has been rising constantly. Her boyfriend took the 長鑫 shares he held and used them as collateral to take out a thirty-year mortgage to buy a house nearby.
Today, while walking in Hefei, everyone on the street suddenly stopped what they were doing and, without planning, threw their arms around each other.
She said it felt as if humanity had entered a golden age.