【正确答案】 Following Liu Cixin, Hao Jingfang became the second Chinese writer to step on the world's science-fiction stage, as her work Folding Beijing was awarded the Hugo Awards for Best Novelette. According to her, the story of Folding Beijing was based on her daily observations. For a while, she lived in a rural-urban fringe zone, where she used to chat occasionally with people downstairs about their life pressures, children left behind in their faraway hometowns and worries about coming down with illness. At that time, she worked for a company that would organize high-end international conferences, attended by state officials and CEOs of Fortune Global 500 companies. Piecing together the stories of her work and life with her thoughts and i-maginations, she created a multi-layered world. It was her aspiration to depict all kinds of lives with her words, so that people can " see" each other.
" Science fiction writers like to take all possibilities into account," said Hao Jingfang at the award ceremony. "I also put out one possibility in my Folding Beijing that tried to tackle problems brought by automation, technological progress, unemployment and economic stagnation. But I hope my story doesn't end up becoming true in reality. I hope we will have a brighter future. "
Working as a macroeconomics researcher, she has never thought herself as a professional writer though she has kept on writing. "I'm not a full-time writer, for I am merely recording my imaginations in life with words. I am still dedicated to my job, taking the subway that runs through the bustling city to swipe the card at the office. Writing is and will always be the crystalline bubbles shining in the branch line of my life, and I will never step away from the main stem of my life," this Tianjin girl said calmly.