With the last 52 impoverished counties successively declaring victory against extreme poverty, China has achieved its goal of eliminating absolute poverty one month before its self-imposed deadline.
I mean, in 2012, the 3000 member National People's Congress (the PRC's parliament and highest legislative body) had a combined net worth of $85 billion USD.
I agree that it's not immediately disqualifying for communists to allow private capital to temporarily exist as a transition stage, but when a communist party's highest legislative body is occupied by billionaires and massively multi-millionaires I don't think its unreasonable to doubt their sincerity when they say that the reason they're allowing private capital to exist is to further the cause of communism, liberation and prosperity for all.
Super cool less people are living in absolute poverty though.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the National People's Congress is part of the government, not the Party. The Party holds a majority of seats in the NPC, but it isn't an inherently "communist" body.
I would be interested to see how the net worth breaks down according to each party in the People's Congress though. I imagine a lot of it must be in the Communist Party.
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I mean, in 2012, the 3000 member National People's Congress (the PRC's parliament and highest legislative body) had a combined net worth of $85 billion USD.
It's cool that Xi's been doing an anti-corruption campaign but despite that the net worth of the NPC and it's advisory body the CPPCC had more than doubled by 2018 from when Xi came to power in 2012.
I agree that it's not immediately disqualifying for communists to allow private capital to temporarily exist as a transition stage, but when a communist party's highest legislative body is occupied by billionaires and massively multi-millionaires I don't think its unreasonable to doubt their sincerity when they say that the reason they're allowing private capital to exist is to further the cause of communism, liberation and prosperity for all.
Super cool less people are living in absolute poverty though.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the National People's Congress is part of the government, not the Party. The Party holds a majority of seats in the NPC, but it isn't an inherently "communist" body.
I would be interested to see how the net worth breaks down according to each party in the People's Congress though. I imagine a lot of it must be in the Communist Party.
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