From The Standard (link):
A widening income gap that threatens to tear China apart is likely to be a top item on the agenda when the National People’s Congress kicks off its annual full meeting next weekend.
The 3,000 NPC delegates will be meeting just as tensions between the haves and the have-nots seem to be reaching a critical level.”
China’s leaders certainly accord priority to the maintenance of political and social stability,” said City University of Hong Kong’s Joseph Cheng.
Signs are multiplying that society is unraveling at the seams, especially in rural areas where 715 million people are groaning under the twin weights of abusive officialdom and economic growth a fraction of that in the cities.
