China Now Tries to Tame Deng’s Black and White Cats – John Ruwitch

From Reuters via scotsman.com:

A huge billboard of China’s late leader Deng Xiaoping presides over an intersection in the heart of Shenzhen, part shrine, part tourist attraction and part ad for market reforms.

Hundreds visit each day. A few bring flowers. Everyone poses for pictures. For those without cameras, 20 yuan (1 pound) buys two snapshots of yourself, printed and laminated on the spot — one before the Deng billboard, and one facing the other way with Shenzhen’s skyscrapers in the background.

A fitting tribute, perhaps, to the man who launched China’s reforms and whose symbolic “Southern Tour” to Shenzhen and neighbouring cities 15 years ago shifted the project into overdrive.[Full Text]

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