China fact of the day

17 Aug 2012

The Hurun Report, based in Shanghai, tracks the nation’s wealthy and calculates that there were a record 271 billionaires (in U.S. dollars) in China in 2011. A third of the top 50 and five of the top 10 hold official political positions, the report says. “The richer they are, the more political positions they have,” [...]
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