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    Millionaire Chinese businessman bulldozes run down huts in village where he grew up

    Millionaire Chinese businessman bulldozes run down huts in village where he grew up and builds luxury flats for residents instead... for free

    A millionaire Chinese businessman has bulldozed the wooden huts and muddy roads where he grew up - and built luxury homes for the people who lived there.
    Xiong Shuihua was born in Xiongkeng village in the city of Xinyu, southern China and said that his family had always been well looked after and supported by residents in his childhood.
    So when the 54-year-old ended up making millions in the steel industry he decided to repay the favour - for free.



    The business tycoon decided to return to the village and give everybody a place of their own to live.
    Five years ago, the area was run down and many lived in basic homes.
    But the area has been transformed in recent years and now 72 families are enjoying life in luxury new flats.





    Meanwhile, 18 families, who were particularly kind to the businessman, were given villas of their own in a project costing close to £4million.
    After moving in, he even promised three meals a day to the older residents and people on a low income to make sure they could get by.



    The multimillionaire made his money first of all in the construction industry and later by getting involved in the steel trade.
    He said: 'I earned more money than I knew what to do with, and I didn't want to forget my roots.
    'I always pay my debts, and wanted to make sure the people who helped me when I was younger and my family were paid back.'
    Elderly local Qiong Chu, 75, said: 'I remember his parents. They were kind-hearted people who cared very much for others, and it's great that their son has inherited that kindness.'



    Chinese's socialist ideology generates significant pressures on wealthy individuals. In China, the general concept of wealth is that it's a collective efforts instead of a personal achievement. This is why most wealthy Chinese would either eventually move to the US to keep the wealth to themselves or they will share their wealth with others in China.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post



    Chinese's socialist ideology generates significant pressures on wealthy individuals. In China, the general concept of wealth is that it's a collective efforts instead of a personal achievement. This is why most wealthy Chinese would either eventually move to the US to keep the wealth to themselves or they will share their wealth with others in China.

    Perhaps in the 1950s through the 1970s this social structure was prevalent.
    Not today, there are more wealthy Chinese individuals than ever before without the political/social stigma of yesteryear....

    If anyone hasn't noticed, the contemporary Chinese economic ideology is not what is once was - attaching itself to provincial lifestyle as well as the modern city existence.

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    Quite a number of Chinese & Japanese relocating to LOS.
    Why is that?
    They play golf together - go to Karaoke bars together - go to their respective eating places.
    BUT, the men just love a Thai wife - caring, obliging, take care * all that stuff.

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    That's a great story. I never think of Chinese as being generous to people outside of their immediate family. Good man!

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    Top marks to that bloke,unlike a lot of others who have more money than they know what to do with,so they just get in a pissing contest with other super rich instead of doing some good for the needy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit
    That's a great story. I never think of Chinese as being generous to people outside of their immediate family. Good man!
    That's just the media innit - telling you porkies.

    Of all the huge magnates in the west - not one has ever done anything remotely like that.

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    A great story. A great act. A great man. Well done, sir.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thaimeme View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post



    Chinese's socialist ideology generates significant pressures on wealthy individuals. In China, the general concept of wealth is that it's a collective efforts instead of a personal achievement. This is why most wealthy Chinese would either eventually move to the US to keep the wealth to themselves or they will share their wealth with others in China.

    Perhaps in the 1950s through the 1970s this social structure was prevalent.
    Not today, there are more wealthy Chinese individuals than ever before without the political/social stigma of yesteryear....

    If anyone hasn't noticed, the contemporary Chinese economic ideology is not what is once was - attaching itself to provincial lifestyle as well as the modern city existence.
    You haven't a clue.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cnx37 View Post
    Quite a number of Chinese & Japanese relocating to LOS.
    Why is that?
    They play golf together - go to Karaoke bars together - go to their respective eating places.
    BUT, the men just love a Thai wife - caring, obliging, take care * all that stuff.
    So they can have their second wife in peace.
    The party is cracking down on corruption and second wives.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nathan Napalm View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by misskit
    That's a great story. I never think of Chinese as being generous to people outside of their immediate family. Good man!
    That's just the media innit - telling you porkies.

    Of all the huge magnates in the west - not one has ever done anything remotely like that.
    You do know how much money Bill Gates has given - right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by RPETER65 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Nathan Napalm View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by misskit
    That's a great story. I never think of Chinese as being generous to people outside of their immediate family. Good man!
    That's just the media innit - telling you porkies.

    Of all the huge magnates in the west - not one has ever done anything remotely like that.
    You do know how much money Bill Gates has given - right?
    Doesn't outweigh the evil that he has promoted and manipulated.
    Don't buy your: Bill Gates, benign philanthropic dude.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer
    Nonsense. Remotely ?? Perhaps not exactly like that, but many have given much more. List of philanthropists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 50 Philanthropists Who Have Given Away The Most Money - Forbes 25 Billionaires and Millionaires That Became Philanthropists The Top 25 Richest Millionaires & Billionaires Giving Away Their Money To Make This World A Better Place | Addicted 2 Success
    Quote Originally Posted by RPETER65
    You do know how much money Bill Gates has given - right?
    Ahh, mincing prancer and jesus freak #1.

    Guys, stop spitting out cut and paste lists of "donations" or "tax write-offs"

    Name a fvcking specific example from all that shit - that's similair to what this dude's done.

    Not saying there isn't one - but I can't remember hearing anything remotely like that - boy done well goes back and finances his entire hometown out of poverty.

    Anyway, you're both wankers so I could't really give a monkeys anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nathan Napalm View Post

    Anyway, you're both wankers so I could't really give a monkeys anyway.
    In that case I won't bother trying, since you're too dim to have looked at those links and researched it further, in order to back up your fatuous comment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang
    Millionaire Chinese businessman bulldozes run down huts in village where he grew up
    Fuking Chinese kunt! Typical...

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    Quote Originally Posted by thaimeme View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by RPETER65 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Nathan Napalm View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by misskit
    That's a great story. I never think of Chinese as being generous to people outside of their immediate family. Good man!
    That's just the media innit - telling you porkies.

    Of all the huge magnates in the west - not one has ever done anything remotely like that.
    You do know how much money Bill Gates has given - right?
    Doesn't outweigh the evil that he has promoted and manipulated.
    Don't buy your: Bill Gates, benign philanthropic dude.

    Buy it or not, the money he has given to great causes around the world speaks for it's self.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nathan Napalm View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer
    Nonsense. Remotely ?? Perhaps not exactly like that, but many have given much more. List of philanthropists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 50 Philanthropists Who Have Given Away The Most Money - Forbes 25 Billionaires and Millionaires That Became Philanthropists The Top 25 Richest Millionaires & Billionaires Giving Away Their Money To Make This World A Better Place | Addicted 2 Success
    Quote Originally Posted by RPETER65
    You do know how much money Bill Gates has given - right?
    Ahh, mincing prancer and jesus freak #1.

    Guys, stop spitting out cut and paste lists of "donations" or "tax write-offs"

    Name a fvcking specific example from all that shit - that's similair to what this dude's done.

    Not saying there isn't one - but I can't remember hearing anything remotely like that - boy done well goes back and finances his entire hometown out of poverty.

    Anyway, you're both wankers so I could't really give a monkeys anyway.

    Who gives a rip, you offer nothing I am interested in either. Why don't you just put me on ignore, might keep your blood pressure down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang
    Millionaire Chinese businessman bulldozes run down huts in village where he grew up
    Fuking Chinese kunt! Typical...[/QUOTE]

    Betty you are one negative piece of work, man gives that much in return for what those people did for him as a kid and that's all you have to say. How could you come to acquire the hatred you seem to have.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RPETER65
    Why don't you just put me on ignore, might keep your blood pressure down.
    He is a troll. His sole purpose here is to try and get posters like you all wound up. In your case he is succeeding.

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    You took that seriously, RPeter ? Betty is a pretty mild troll....Hardly even registers on the Troll Scale. He's just being silly with an obvious misquote.

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    Satire, Peter...

    Laughing at folks, sometimes myself, that just read the headline and then assert their own prejudices without reading the story or understanding the context...

    Actually, on a 'Chinese' note, I've never been fond of them (all 3 billion of them), but have noticed over the last few years that I've met and interacted with a lot of nice/decent Chinese folk. Their society seems to be rising on various levels while ours are falling - they'll be more democratic and critically thinking than us in a short period of time I suspect (arguably, they are, at least in part, now).
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