Looking Back at Sichuan: the Nutria Madness of the 1990S

In the 1990s, in a small town in central Sichuan, a myth of nutria breeding and sudden wealth swept the streets. Vendors hyped up the high-priced recovery of rat seeds and promised huge profits. Simple villagers emptied their savings, borrowed money from everywhere, and rushed to jump into this wave of speculation that seemed to be a sure profit. The protagonist watched with cold eyes as the bubble rose, became frenzied, and then completely collapsed, witnessing countless families going bankrupt and in debt. Based on the real experiences of ordinary people around us, it dissects the greed of human nature under the market economy in the early days of the era, and warns all those who want to get rich overnight: being down-to-earth is the foundation for making a stable living.