Is China the nation with the highest social mobility in the world?

[esolve]

many poor poeple become overnight millionaires in China, at a scale which is never seen in the world.

China's NO.1 rich person is Jack Ma, who was a college teacher.
China's NO.1 rich woman Zhou Qunfei was a migrant worker from a poor rural family.
China's previous president Hu Jingtao was a son of tea seller.
China's next president will be Hu Chunhua, a son of a dirty poor rural family

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

many poor poeple become overnight millionaires in China, at a scale which is never seen in the world.

China's NO.1 rich person is Jack Ma, who was a college teacher.
China's NO.1 rich woman Zhou Qunfei was a migrant worker from a poor rural family.
China's previous president Hu Jingtao was a son of tea seller.
China's next president will be Hu Chunhua, a son of a dirty poor rural family

How do you know about the next president of China? Some people are even speculating that Xi Jinping will remain to be the next president (or remain in the background like Deng or Jiang).

 

[esolve]

How do you know about the next president of China? Some people are even speculating that Xi Jinping will remain to be the next president (or remain in the background like Deng or Jiang).

according to previous customs, Hu Chunhua will be the next president while Sun Zhengcai will be the next premier.
However, if Xi changes the customs, then nobody knows what will happen
but anyway, the decisions according to the customs show that it is possible that the next president is from a very poor rural mountain family

 

[Aepsilons]

USA.

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

China's next president will be Hu Chunhua

No，It will be me

USA.

2016 could be a Clinton vs Bush round 2

 

[Faiez]

2016 could be a Clinton vs Bush round 2

VS one party politics in china....

 

[Edison Chen]

WAS

 

[45'22']

US

 

[Aepsilons]

2016 could be a Clinton vs Bush round 2

Politics is Politics, but Business is Business.

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

Historically, China is a merit based society. With the Confucian examination system open to all stratas of society, anyone can make top official. When this system becomes corrupted, dynasties collapse.

 

[DoTell]

VS one party politics in china....

One party dictatorship vs two party dictatorship. Yes, U.S. is up by 1. But somehow 2 is being sold as infinity

Oh by the way, just have to get in before lectures about "freedom" from our fellow Indians.

 

[MarkovChain]

China has done well to incorporate capitalism in its style of functioning - and promoting based on merit very efficiently. Social mobility is usually a by-product of freedom to exploit opportunity. Well done China! India has a lot to learn from China/Singapore/USA in establishing a meritocratic culture.

 

[Faiez]

One party dictatorship vs two party dictatorship. Yes, U.S. is up by 1. But somehow 2 is being sold as infinity

Oh by the way, just have to get in before lectures about "freedom" from our fellow Indians.

They have the right to form as many parties as they want...Can you do same in china ? no. They have the right to say what ever they want (freedom of speech). Can you go out and criticize the communist party ? no.

 

[Edison Chen]

China's NO.1 rich person is Jack Ma, who was a college teacher.
China's NO.1 rich woman Zhou Qunfei was a migrant worker from a poor rural family.
China's previous president Hu Jingtao was a son of tea seller.
China's next president will be Hu Chunhua, a son of a dirty poor rural family

Red part: This is actually because China was built on nearly nothing, the revolution is real, no real capitalists existed before the reform. Everyone could start up his own business without the restriction of the monopoly enterprises except state owned business and government. New industries bring new opportunities, therefore to create billionaires and entrepreneurs like Jack Ma. When the country becomes developed, it means many fields are mature and saturated, new comers into this field won't stand a chance to develop unless there is revolutionary technology breakthroughs.

Blue part: I think you forgot 红二代 or 太子党. And some 红三代 have very strong influence stretching across both government officials and businessmen, due to their special identity. Yeah, but you are right. Civil Servants Exam is relatively fair, many poor guys went to the governments through examinations, although there is black box manipulation like those in somewhere else.

Face it, China's social hierarchical system is increasingly consolidated. Do you forget urban and rural binary system, or 城乡二元体制, or 户籍限制? Although it will be abolished step by step maybe in next 20 years, the opportunities for the poor to rank among the upper class are missing.

 

[zeronet]

China is a highly homogeneous society, just like other east Asian countries. Basically those poor and rich people belong to the same group of people. So it is quite common that a boy from a dirty poor family all of sudden becomes a tycoon. This kind of stories were recorded everywhere throughout China's +3000 yrs recorded history in Chinese classics. For US, 100 yrs ago there was no such mobility, at least for minorities, right? For China, it is nothing related to politics such as democracy or dictatorship, it is a born nature.