18 Feb 2022
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Common Prosperity is NOT “killing the rich to help the poor.”
Ha Zengyou, a director-general at the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), wanted to set the record straight at a presser Thursday (Caixin):
“[We must] avoid the trap of raising lazy people on 'welfare-ism.'”
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