‘Poverty divides us’: gap between rich and poor poses threat to China

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Xi Jinping himself has warned China’s wealth gap is not only economic but political and could threaten party’s legitimacy

When Wang Zhenyu moved out of his small village in central Henan province to the coastal city of Dalian at 18, he was astonished. “It was like a culture shock for me, even though it was just a big city in my country, not a foreign land.” A few years later when he was enrolled in Peking University as a graduate student, he found much fewer students in the..


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source: The Guardian - 01.07.2021

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