China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order

Re:China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order by jon_richards on Saturday May 13, 2017 @06:41PM (#14333381)

I haven't looked it up, but I've heard from a local that if you are displaced by a government project you will "be rich". In his eyes it was similar to winning the lottery, if less extreme.

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Re:China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order by cheapsteak on Saturday May 13, 2017 @11:16PM (#14334039)

It does depend on the area

I remember coming across a few blocks of old densely packed single-family brick buildings in Shanghai that were about to be torn down. Each building had a large hand written banner above their entrance, half of them praising the communist party for its compassion or saying long live Chairman Mao (my interpretation was that they were hoping for mercy for being such loyal party members), the other half cussing out the party and local officials

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Re:China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order by pcr0 on Sunday May 14, 2017 @02:56AM (#14334594)

I think the idea was that hanging pictures of Chairman Mao all over their building would make the government look bad if they knocked it down.

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