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PTravel
Chinese culture is heavily entrepreneurial. When Deng took over after Mao died, and said the two most important things for China, "To be wealthy is glorious,"
I think the some people referred to are the Chinese Government.
On his southern tour, he repeated a phrase he first used in October 1985 when meeting with a U.S. business group in Beijing: "Rang Yi Bu Fen Ren Xian Fu Qi Lai" (
Let Some People Get Rich First). This call for economic exemplars was erroneously translated by Western media into the much more black-and-white "To Get Rich is Glorious,"