Add cars to that billion person "sunday drive" to the waiting-to-be-built megahumungous shopping mall, and you can almost hear the gurgling sound of the last drops of oil being drained from the earth.
Courtesy of HighBeam Reasearch & PR NewsWire:
China is channel surfing on a wave of new entertainment. Almost overnight, the government has turned provincial TV stations-once essentially conduits for propaganda-into cash-rich conglomerates that compete with one another for viewers. Against a backdrop of breakneck economic and social change, television has emerged as a key driver of both, report Hong Kong Bureau Chief George Wehrfriz and Special Correspondent Duncan Hewitt. It is a case study in successful market reform and a tool that's reshaping the nation's self identity.
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