{"id":33628,"date":"2021-07-01T21:52:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/01\/xi-jinping-gap-between-rich-and-poor-poses-biggest-threat-to-china"},"modified":"2021-07-01T21:52:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:52:18","slug":"poverty-divides-us-gap-between-rich-and-poor-poses-threat-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33628","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Poverty divides us\u2019: gap between rich and poor poses threat to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xi Jinping himself has warned China\u2019s wealth gap is not only economic but political and could threaten party\u2019s legitimacy<\/p>\n<p>When Wang Zhenyu moved out of his small village in central Henan province to the coastal city of Dalian at 18, he was astonished. \u201cIt was like a culture shock for me, even though it was just a big city in my country, not a foreign land.\u201d A few years later when he was enrolled in Peking University as a graduate student, he found much fewer students in the country\u2019s top university coming from a similar background to his.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in a small village of 2,000 farmers, many of Wang\u2019s childhood friends dropped out of school after finishing their nine years of compulsory education. Now with a decent academic job, Wang begins to experience \u201creverse culture shock\u201d every time he goes back to his village for the annual lunar new year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/01\/xi-jinping-gap-between-rich-and-poor-poses-biggest-threat-to-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xi Jinping himself has warned China\u2019s wealth gap is not only economic but political and could threaten party\u2019s legitimacyWhen Wang Zhenyu moved out of his small village in central Henan province to the coastal city of Dalian at 18, he was astonished. \u201c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,437,1203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-economics","category-inequality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33629,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33628\/revisions\/33629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}