Lan Yuechuan 
Era of Comparing Children 

"Don”t let the child lose at the starting line", this sentence has crazed many parents and children, but also caused many social problems and family contradictions. This novel describes the cruel situation of from primary to junior middle school of Shanghai, an international metropolis. In order to enter junior middle school, children and parents use all the skills, including training, competition, examination to obtain certificates, consulting, resume, interview, catching the subway and catching the bus. They often run very fast. Parents with the elderly and the children to take care of has to work hard for career, repay house loan, raise children, take care of their parents and deal with midlife crisis. They are raising children with difficult school work while sparing no effort to move forward under the heavy pressure of life.