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October 31, 2005
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If China's West had received a yuan for every word written about the growing income gap between the interior rural poor and their richer coastal urban dwelling cousins, there wouldn't be a gap. The SCMP notes a report that incomes are rising in China's West, just not as quickly as on the coast (chart below the jump): The wealth gap between the nation's east and west has widened in the five years since an ambitious strategy to close the economic divide was introduced, according to a study by the Xian-based Northwest University.Yes, Communist China's rich are getting richer and poor are getting richer, just not as quickly. I like Professor Zhang's analogy. One could also compare the East-West gap with the East Asia Games, which seems to be a giant waste of time for everybody involved despite grandiose
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