Happiness targets

China’s government planners, on a mission to make the country happy over the next five years, have their work cut out for them.

According to a survey, only 6 percent of the country’s citizens consider themselves happy, compared with 82 percent of Danish people, the official China Daily newspaper reported.

Several sources are reporting this week that “xingfu,” or happiness, has replaced “hexie,” harmony, as the keyword in the country’s next five-year plan for growth and development. The key to making Chinese people happy, if the survey is correct? Financial success. Forty percent of respondents said wealth is the main factor in happiness, while 27 percent pointed to “psychological pressure.”