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To: elmatador who wrote (130513)	2/16/2017 4:59:19 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217542

the pboc, fyi, wants capital out and away, and is in truth facilitating so, albeit managing for orderly flow outward foreign direct investment is encouraged forex reserve heading to 300B

To: elmatador who wrote (130513)	2/17/2017 6:21:54 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217542

do not know about brazil, but china is not about to run out of tough resourceful people, nor is it about to run dry of capital reflexologist reported (1) the maternity ward at hospitals are operating beyond designed capacity as mothers-in-law and husbands clamour for second child (2) she herself is mom to boy, so not pressured to go for second (3) she shall return to Nanchang, city 30 minutes away by super highway from home village and join her cousin’s 3-years old / 3-cities business of aluminium window production as the building of the countryside keeps up and people need the windows and doors (balconies are getting lengthier) and she herself paid tens of K RMB for such in her new 3-storeys house on her land all of which are transaction-able. By doing so, she is closer to her home allowing for weekly visits, and the future seems sunny. i asked her about her savings rate over the past few years living in shenzhen (since 2007, and engaged w/ hong kong 2009 when her brother retired from the reflexology trade to work full time as traditional medicine doc and capitalist) - she says 60% her brother sports car, driver, helper, 5 kids (1 in college already), per solidly working middle class, and she is doing okay as to-be office lady takeaways (1) as infrastructure investment continues apace and going global, all looks okay as long as in the loop (2) getmoregold, because china can tee-up still more college graduates even as more reflexologists arise and retire, and there be US$ 250T of printing still to go, over either the next 15, 30, or 50 years depending on pace of reform, status growth and condition of stability as long as team china does not put in place a trump to follow-on to core comrade jinping should trump wastes the coming 47 months on tweeting, would be equivalent to 15 years of wastes benchmarked on times of 1980s a guess

To: elmatador who wrote (130513)	2/17/2017 6:34:51 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217542

now, use true imagination, genuinely think, ask self in ernst, and reflect honestly ... what would happen should africa be tee-ed up as the next china, even if at the-glass-is-half-empty 50% boingboing.net In China's once poverty-stricken villages, former peasants manufacture a single product for one retailerAlibaba subsidiary Taobao has given rise to "Taobao Villages" -- 18 villages that were once among China's poorest places, where former peasant farmers have attained prosperity by working in factories that produce a single class of goods (for example, Daiji township, a remote town in Shandong where most working age people have moved away, is now a high-speed-fiber linked booming factory town dedicated to "acting and dance costumes"). In Dinglou village 280 of the 306 households make goods for Taobao. Taobao villages are a major piece of China's poverty-alleviation schemes, and Taobao villages are dotted with official signs bearing messages like "Through Taobao, you can escape bitter days. E-commerce runs toward the road of happiness." Ding Peiling’s small, hangar-like factory floor sits on the edge of his plot of land in Dinglou village, facing the recently paved road that heads into town. In one room, two middle-aged women from surrounding villages are ironing World War II-era army nurse costumes for yet another film about that war, which is remembered in China as a heroic struggle against Japanese militarism. The women had previously farmed nearby plots of land; now, they have found better wages out of the fields and much closer to home. Ding, unlike nearly every other adult in the village, never left. A slim man of 60 with big glasses and dark, sun-worn skin, he graduated high school and became a teacher. He originally taught math and language arts, but the pay was low. It was only in the mid-1980s, after 13 years of teaching, that he found another opportunity. An artist in a nearby village painted background canvases for photo shoots, but was too busy painting to sell them. Ding and his cousin became door-to-door salesmen for photo backdrops. The market eventually shifted to photo costumes and then to general performance costumes, which offered a larger consumer base. Around 2013, only Ding and a handful of other households were engaged in any business besides subsistence farming. Su, as the new township party secretary at the time, saw a development opportunity. The roads were too broken to support delivery trucks, so Su took matters into his own hands, residents say: He and his fellow township government officials went out and fixed the roads themselves. They laid fiber-optic cables—they have “internet faster than in Shanghai,” he claims—and he wrote an open letter encouraging college graduates and migrants who had moved to cities to come back to the countryside. Once poverty-stricken, China’s “Taobao villages” have found a lifeline making trinkets for the internet [Josh Freedman/Quartz] (Image: Josh Freedman)

To: elmatador who wrote (130513)	2/17/2017 6:40:34 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217542

even as the external pull is great, and that is a good, the internal pull and push is greater, and that is also a good all good to very good asia.nikkei.com China's tough job market is creating more postgrads- Nikkei Asian Review BEIJING Millions of young Chinese decided not to attend Christmas parties last year. Instead, they spent the festive weekend sitting for a two-day entrance exam for postgraduate courses at national universities. According to China's Ministry of Education, a record 2 million people registered to take the 2016 graduate school admissions test, up from 1.77 million in 2015 and 1.64 million the year before. The number of graduate school applicants has swelled 56% from a decade ago, when national schools received 1.28 million applications. Meanwhile, the ministry projects that 7.95 million will complete undergraduate degrees in 2017, a 4% increase on the year. So a bigger proportion of Chinese college graduates are turning to postgraduate studies, rather than entering the workforce right away. A thirst for knowledge is not the only thing driving them. Many see advanced degrees as their best bet for surviving in an increasingly competitive job market. The ratio of job offers to employment-seeking college graduates in China's 100 biggest cities for the March-June period was 1.05, down just 0.01 percentage point on the year, according to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. This data may not tell the whole story, however. "National statistics are generally not very helpful or revealing," said Keegan Elmer, a researcher at the China Labour Bulletin in Hong Kong. In a recent report, the CLB noted that the Chinese labor market is "without doubt" a lot tougher for job seekers than it was at the start of the decade. Recent media estimates of the unemployment rate among young college graduates range from 4% to over 30%. In an online survey by Chinese educational information website eol.cn, 35% of respondents said the reason to pursue a postgraduate degree is "to increase their competitiveness in job hunting." Less than 31% responded that the primary motivation is "to improve academic research capabilities." According to a report by online media company Sohu.com, out of the 30 universities that offer students the best odds to find jobs, 23 reported that postgraduate students secured employment at a higher rate than undergrads. With students looking for every edge they can get, the prevalence of postgraduate degrees among the Chinese population could approach that of the U.S., where roughly 12% of people ages 25 and up hold a master's or higher. As of mid-2015, there were roughly 20 million 21-year-olds in China; the 2 million Christmas exam takers -- assuming that a majority of them were university seniors -- account for about 10% of that tally.