Huaxi: Secrets of China's richest village

A Chinese village where everyone has a car, house, money and free cooking oil ... as long as they work seven days a week and never leave.

Script: Mark Griffiths & Rahul Venkit. Camera, editing: Rahul Venkit. Production assistants: Luting & Liu Donghui. http://crienglish.com

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• huaxi
• booming china
• rahul venkit
• mark griffiths

[finestfresh]

in china, the philosphy is "work harder today, better life tomorrow"

in western, "enjoy life today, fucked up tomorrow"

[berkshireee]

@PlzDuntBanMe

this is a chinese village, dumbass. If you buy houses in shanghai, HK, beijing, etc, they will cost way more than anywhere in Canada-I should know; I'm from vancouver -.-

[lyue1996]

Seriously, I hate people commenting:

"Wow, that's pretty good .. but pollution ...." or "Wow, thats well done .. but human rights ,..." and things like that .. it's fucking annoying! No country is perfect! Every country has it's own problems!

[crazy3641]

capitalist is the best

[DanielsViews]

This is amazing (and sad).

[nem700]

they need some air purification technology.

[coulditellyouso]

they can't go on holiday :O

[coulditellyouso]

it's sort of creepy.

[jacksawild]

@jaundiceboy The residents number at about 30,000 and the migrants earn more than the average wage in other parts of their country. Who's propaganda are you listening to?

[jacksawild]

@TrollogyExpert That's total bollocks. The villagers are all solvent, each with salaries in excess of $150k. Each with free housing, free medical care, free transport and freedom to leave. They don't claim to be a utopia, but they are on their way there. It is a social experiment, which in 30 years has always grown economically. The migrant workers, who are not official residents, have better pay and working conditions than they otherwise would have. It is impressive.

[LQSW1]

huaxi village is the only communist place in china now.every chinese know that.that village fuckin rich !indeed

[TrollogyExpert]

As many as 80% of the villagers have had to get into debt in order to buy a house, while the family of retired Communist Party boss Wu Renbao controls more than 90% of the village's assets.

One of Wu's sons has taken over his former post as Party boss in the village and allmost all leadership positions in Huaxi are taken by family members of the three generations headed by Wu.

Wu's four sons collectively control and manage 90% of the village's assets.

Utopia my ass...