Where is China heading economically and socially? We can follow the well-worn path to prosperity...Japan did it, Hong Kong did it, Korea did it, and Singapore did it, etcetera. I feel that as labour gets more expensive, China will raise the value chain. Many claim that it is a given that in China: a) The export onslaught is inevitable in most if not all sectors b) Chinese exports will eventually meet and possibly surpass …showed first 75 words of 522 total…

…showed last 75 words of 522 total…is supposed to be compulsory, many tens of millions of children in the countryside never finish it. Even the ones who do manage to get that far have no chance at all of doing much more with their ill-educated lives than becoming either farmers or migrant workers. Some choice. AND THIS IS AFTER 30 YEARS OF ECONOMIC REFORM! The day that the fascists reform the education system is the day I see a poor communist cadre.