China Central Television released the results of its recent happiness survey on January 12. Theresults showthat almost 45 percent of morethan 80,000respondents―all Chinesefeel happy or very happy; about 11 percent are not happy. Recently, Beijing Reviewinterviewed Hu Dayuan, Deputy
Director of the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. Hu was a consultant onthe survey and has done research on happiness for several years.