What I Learned on My Junket to China
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May 25 (Bloomberg) -- China Daily, the largest English-language newspaper in China, carried a front-page headline lastweek: “Village Gratitude Shows Integrity of Task.”
Not clear what that’s about, and the opening sentence isn’tmuch help: “On a hot afternoon, Zhou Yi picked up a bag offreshly boiled eggs that had been left on the doorstep of thecommittee office in Chaqulak village in the Xinjiang Uygurautonomous region.” I figured this must be some feel-good story(of the sort that even U.S. papers sometimes cannot resist)about the noble, uncorrupted country folk quietly taking care ofthe less fortunate in their midst.