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Fake story reflects real divide between rural, urban Chinese

March 21, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A woman from a big Chinese city visits her boyfriend’s rural hometown and is so appalled by the squalor she sees that she dumps him. The story was fake, but it swept through Chinese media because it highlighted a deep societal gap that the ruling Communist Party has vowed to close.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Associated Press, Beijing-based Renmin University, China, Chinese New Year, Communist Party, National People, Premier Li Keqiang, Rural Chinese, Tang Yinghong, Tsinghua University, Wu Qiang, Xinhua News Agency, Zheng Fengtian, Zhu Liangyu

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