On January 12, Zhao Lei took a 13-hour flight from Brussels to Beijing. A day later, the construction entrepreneur was preparing himself for an even longer journey from Tianjin, a large port city near the Chinese capital, to his home in western China.
Mr Zhao had just returned from a
seven-nation tour of Europe with his wife, their first trip outside China, and was now in the market for a status symbol popular among the country’s aspiring middle classes — an imported Audi Q7 sport utility vehicle.
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