From AP, via the Boston Globe: China’s communist leaders have issued an economic plan that calls for developing the poor countryside in an effort to narrow the growing and politically explosive gap between rich and poor, state media said Wednesday. The five-year plan was approved at an annual leadership meeting that ended last week but […]
From Inter Press Service, via Asia Times: As much as Chinese leaders hope that a leap of nationalistic pride for completing the space mission would help assuage popular discontent over social injustice and corruption, they feel there is a need to justify the expenditure. Despite an economy that is expected to grow 9.2% this year, […]
From the New York Times, via the International Herald Tribune: The Communist Party leadership has approved an economic blueprint that it says will address China’s yawning wealth gap and reduce “outstanding contradictions” that have led to a rash of social unrest. Hu Jintao, president and Communist Party chief, concluding an annual planning session Tuesday, put […]
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