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To: Tom who wrote (2614)	1/4/1999 4:20:00 PM
From: Tom	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2951

From Der Spiegel's "A Visit from Mr. Ko" Before being expelled from China, SPIEGEL correspondent Jürgen Kremb met up again with a farming family, after 13 years - and heard a story of disappointed hopes. The rural population is suffering the hardest under the economic crisis. The officially propagated story of the increasing affluence of Chinese farmers has long become a legend in Huangshui and many other places in the provinces. Over the last few years, a distinct social gradient has emerged in the villages. Wealth for a few has produced social dilapidation, ignorance and filth for the majority.