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Award of Excellence
Randy Olson National Geographic
"China's Middle Class"
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Huaxi Village (Farmers Village) co-op has been a
model farm for 45 years. They were capitalists before it was fashionable in
China. They started factories, but worked in them with no windows. And when
the government officials came around, the workers ran out to the fields and
pretended to be peasants. They became the first and most successful
capitalist exploitation of the collective. This model farm became so
successful they started selling shares in the 60's. They sold the shares
"underground" The residents now buy shares... or work for shares
and that is what they buy their homes for. When shares were first offered,
they went for 2000RMB, now they go for 30,000 RMB. 30,000 officials visit
this place to see how it is run every year. There are not many model farms
left in China... none with this wealth. It is held up by the government as
the most successful transition from farmer to socialist/capitalist world.
The model farm runs about 80 factories.
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