I don't know much about a comapny's IPO, but the much-hyped Alibaba, Mainland China's juggernaut of internet wholesale, went public in NYC bourse a couple days ago had gained it a big success.  Report said the market value of Alibaba roared up 38% above its denominated price in first trading day and thus had made it the second biggest internet-related company in the world, just next to Google. 

Various discussion has been made towards how NYC market was won by a Chinese company.  Most of the viewpoints concentrated on the back-up of a vast market of 1.3 billion wealthier consumers in Mainland.  But the consumers have right to choose, why Alibaba, why lenovo, why Xiaomi instead of other foreign big names?  What is the impulse that keeps on pushing them to the top of the world?  (The above-mentioned are busnesses of private sectors, let alone those infrastrutures sponsored by public sectors such as highways, bridges, high-speed railway, telecommunication, energy, financial institutions, military industry, and so forth.)

I would like to attribute such a momentum to the "can-do" spirit, a belief that there is nothing they can't do to emulate others' achievements or surpass them.  Mainladers simply want to be the best, the number one in the world, and that spirit has been the intrinsic value in their genes restructured by Mao and Lu Xun.  Unfortunately people in Taiwan still harbor the mindset of "買辦文化", and further deteriorated by that stupid thought of "小確幸".  Oh my goodness, the gap between Taiwan and Mainland will widen and widen everyday, but the good news is someday not far away the final settlement will come without having recourse to war again.