Amid Poverty, Chinese Officials Splurge on Lavish Vanity Projects
At The Los Angeles Times, David Pierson and Jonathan Kaiman survey the mass of “face projects” built by China’s local governments in recent years.
There are no highways running through this impoverished rural county. Children study in dilapidated schoolhouses. On many streets, you& ...
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China is still a developing country, but We are catching up you guys very very soon. Remember how much money you owe a Communist Country. Isn’t it funny!
Vanity projects such as those described above, often in impoverished rural regions, are a sign of bad choices in government spending and a lack of land rights for villagers whose farmland is seized, not a sign of “catching up.”