Corruption of China
The Chinese Government announced that the Gini coefficient of China in 2012 was 0.474.
The standard value of this coefficient in an ordinary advanced country under democracy is about 0.35. Japan's Gini coefficient was 0.336 in fiscal 2010.
It is said that the society featured by a Gini coefficient of 0.4 or more is at risk of unrest or lack of stability.
Truly in these 20 years, 20,000 high-ranking officials of China have fled to foreign countries, transferring assets of about $100 billion to overseas. It is $12 million per official.
In this decade, 1.2 million public office workers of China sent their children to foreign countries as the first step of transferring their assets to overseas.
Indeed Hillary Clinton said in a recent speech at Harvard University that 90% of families of Chinese elite bureaucrats and 80% of Chinese wealthy people have already filed or intend to file immigration claims to foreign countries.
In fact Chinese law enforcement authorities arrested more than 140,000 officials for bribery, graft or other crimes in fiscal 2011.
You should not envy China.
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