National People’s Congress to focus on growing rich-poor gap in President Hu’s ‘Harmonious Society’

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While much of the Chinese media is still bashing the U.S. for a new round of “anti-China containment policy,” the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership is much more nervous about the potentially explosive results of the country’s ever-widening rich-poor gap.

chipoverty2 — A child performs on the streets of Beijing for donations. The net worth of 70 super-rich Chinese legislators has been reported as 10 times that of the entire U.S. Congress. /Telegraph

Calls for ending China’s worsening social inequality are set to dominate the plenary session of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s legislature, which opens on March 5.

While the NPC is usually deemed a rubberstamp chamber, its annual meeting provides a platform for a small — but vocal — number of deputies, in addition to liberal scholars and media commentators, to zero in on the many socio-economic woes of the quasi-superpower.

In the past week, Beijing’s usually docile official press has carried a plethora of articles that focus on how the country’s billionaires are getting richer at the expense of the majority of workers and peasants.

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