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Parody: “Rising Gas Prices Gladly Welcomed by Consumers”

As China raised retail gas prices on April 7th for the second time this year, netizens mocked the NDRC (China’s National Development and Reform Commission) in this parody of an image from a CCTV broadcast. (Translated by CDT.)

April 11, 2011 3:33 PM
Posted By: Sophie Beach
Categories: Economy, Information Revolution, Society
Tags: gas prices, NDRC, satire
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