One million people out of a population of well over a billion is a pretty small percentage...
Question: do Chinese peasants live off their produce, sell it in exchange for money for which they buy stuff to live, or both? Or neither -- are they on state farms?
--- Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za> wrote:
The last state survey
> I've seen of our
> situation has one million people earning below
> US$30/month in this kind
> of work, and yet the state here calls 'begging' and
> various types of
> survival activity (even catching fish and hunting
> wild animals) as
> 'employment'. \
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