Know your BFEE: Chinese and American Ruling Elites In Bed Together for Fun and Profit

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6. What Deng Xiaoping told TIME: ''Let some become rich first.''

Seems like it's going well for some. Coincidentally, they happen to be connected to the connected, like here.

The average wealth of China’s richest 1,000 stands at $860 million, down 9 percent from last year but still up 96 percent since the start of the financial crisis in 2008. Their average age is 54, most live in the capital Beijing (12 percent), are born in years of the rabbit (13 percent), and by an increasing margin are male (87 percent). Almost half have made their fortune in either manufacturing or real estate, or both. The country has 2.7 million millionaires when measured in U.S. dollars, according to Hurun. But even with a boom of wealth entering China, the country’s richest are still dwarfed by their U.S. counterparts. China’s richest man would rank 25th on the Forbes List of America’s Richest.

SOURCE: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/25/the-red-rich-list-meet-chinas-5-wealthiest-men/

Thanks for being in the fight all these years, amborin. I know you understand there are more important things than money, people for instance.