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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’re just as likely to run into a chicken as you are a pedestrian. Yet the Wangjiang local gover