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refurb on March 25, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chinese Ghost Cities That Came Alive

In something like 50 years the Chinese went from a poor 3rd world country to 1st world,

China is regarded as 1st world now? My understanding is that the economic advances has been limited to a portion of the population and a big chunk of the population is still quite rural and poor.

TheOtherHobbes on March 25, 2015 [–]

That's also true of the US - especially if you include "urban and poor" as well.

refurb on March 25, 2015 | [–]

It's true of the US if you use a very liberal definition of "poor". The gap between the poorest and richest in China is far wider than in the US.

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