Outside its scripted meetings, China’s annual parliament gives rise to two activities that expose opposite ends of the country’s growth story: a boom in luxury shopping matched only by a surge in public complaints about corruption, write Simon Rabinovitch and Jamil Anderlini in Beijing.
The contrast between the opulence and the anger underlines one of the more negative legacies of President Hu Jintao and premier Wen Jiabao.
They have pledged to build a fairer, “more harmonious” society, but the wealth gap has steadily widened during their time in office even as economic growth has averaged 10 per cent a year.
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