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To flee or not to flee from the first-tier cities, which has been a question confronting most graduates in recent years. From the following two excerpts, you can find that both kinds of cities have adherents. Write an article of NO LESS THAN 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize both articles, and then 2. provide your own choice and reasons.Excerpt 1 China’s Big Fish Graduates Seek Smaller Ponds The top cities, like Beijing and Shanghai, seem to be losing their glamour and fast-rising second-tier cities like Chengdu, Dalian and Wuhan are offering graduates more employment possibilities and perhaps a better quality of life. Skyrocketing living costs, high pressure, pollution and traffic problems have dissuaded many from staying in the traditional powerhouses of graduate employment, according to sociologist Zhou Keda. More importantly, he says, graduates are not just being pushed away by the negatives, but are being pulled in by the positives. Second-tier cities have been working hard to provide top-notch facilities in fields like education and medical care. A lot of help and support is available to new businesses and environmental concerns are often considerably less. While preferential policies and salary breaks attract the intelligent and the ambitious, top cities are struggling to curb excessive population growth. The expansion of high-speed rail has greatly reduced journey times throughout the country, also contributing to the loss of admirers of first-tier cities. "Previously we talked about ’fleeing’ Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Now, it is more like a natural flow based on more uniform urban development," said Xiong Hanzhong, founder of the Beijing youth stress management center. He describes the trend as a "normal and rational" development.Excerpt 2 Graduates Find First-Tier Cities Still Appealing First-tier cities like Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai are still more popular among university graduates, according to a recent employment survey. It showed 63 percent of respondents hope to stay in first-tier cities for at least one year after graduation this year. Last year, the figure was 38 percent. Liu Xingyang, a senior consultant at the agency, said graduates now feel this way mainly because of the increasing return of people to big cities after hoping to settle in lower-cost small cities. In the past two years, some people left first-tier cities where they worked and went back to their hometowns or sought jobs in second-tier cities or even small places because in first-tier cities, housing prices have become too high, he said. But many people could not get used to smaller cities because in such places, social connections, rather than abilities, usually determine one’s promotions or social status. Some graduates even found they could not easily communicate with people from the area because of "cultural differences", so many started to return to big cities, Liu said. "Such phenomena have been largely reported by the media, sparking many university graduates’ desire to work in first-tier cities," he said. Liu said first-tier cities are attractive to university graduates because they have more opportunities, greater development platforms, a fairer competitive environment, and a more diversified cultural environment.