http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2011/10/amid-poverty-chinese-officials-splurge-on-lavish-vanity-projects/ Watching China Politics from Cyberspace Fri, 24 May 2013 21:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2011/10/amid-poverty-chinese-officials-splurge-on-lavish-vanity-projects/#comment-57885 Will Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:00:42 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=124350#comment-57885 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.”

]]> http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2011/10/amid-poverty-chinese-officials-splurge-on-lavish-vanity-projects/#comment-57884 Eva Liang Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:52:37 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=124350#comment-57884 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!

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