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People fear fame like pigs fear growing fat. – Chinese saying Most countries have a list of the wealthiest people and it is considered as an honour to feature on the list. In China, these lists have a colloquial name: sha zhu bang: “kill pigs list.” In the last fifteen years, China has produced …
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Achieving food security has been a long standing priority for the CCP. With a little over 1.4 billion people, China possesses almost one-fifth of the world’s population but less than one-tenth of the world’s total arable land. Although China’s per capita grain production (1036 lbs) exceeds the international average (882 lbs), it remains the world’s …
Starting yet another series about knowing China better. Q: What makes Chinese Communist Party so powerful? A: Chinese property laws. In China government owns all the land. One can never buy land in China. One can buy only the land using rights. So one has no ownership but only the …