The atmosphere of the New Year was exceptionally festive. The streets and alleys were filled with various red decorations, bustling with energy. Many of the surface workers had also returned to the mother ship to enjoy a brief holiday.
Xu Jie picked up a bottle of "Senolytics" at the drug distribution point in the plaza. It was the latest anti-aging medicine and tasted a bit sweet, somewhat like grapes. If it were on Earth, this bottle of medicine might cost an ordinary person about five years' wages. But in the New Civilization...
Free Distribution!
That was probably one of the benefits of a planned economy. On certain matters, there was no need to consider profit. After all, it was developed by Earth Civilization; there were no research costs involved. As long as industrialization was achieved, mass-producing some medicines was relatively easy.