Notes From the Middle Kingdom
The People’s Daily brings us vignettes.
“With the money saved, I could buy more than 10kg of mutton.”
“The rebate made me resolve to spend 1,950 yuan on a new TV”
“…scrapping of the 2,600-year-old agricultural tax in 2006…”
“We have to think about whether we can afford the cost of running a refrigerator.”
“But we farmers have to think whether it is necessary to store so little food in refrigerators at such a cost.”
“But they do not have retirement pensions, which is why most choose to save”
“…farmers could enjoy the convenience of warm water if solar water heaters were added to the subsidy list”
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90778/90857/90862/6583290.html