China's Massive Wealth Gap
Mr_Incognito
Published
09/10/2013
China has 122 billionaires, a large number of millionaires, but 13 percent of the population live in extreme poverty, less than 1.25 dollars a day. These photos illustrate the country's massive gap between rich and poor.
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Residents of an area for migrant workers watch a traveling circus troupe holding a show in Beijing and celebrities and other guests attend a reception prior to a fashion show held at the Ming Dynasty City Wall Relics Park in Beijing. -
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Residents gambling under streetlights in an alley of a residential area for migrant workers and guests drinking Champagne as they wait for the start of a fashion show in Beijing. -
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A combination photograph shows a man carrying family members as passengers on his electric tricycle cart in Beijing and visitors look around Rolls-Royce's vintage car during the Rolls-Royce's Concours d'Elegance event for celebrating its ten years business in China." -
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A female farmer's bare foot covered in mud about 50 miles from Beijing and women wearing high heels during a photo session in Beijing. -
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Families having a dinner in a residential area for migrant workers in Beijing July 16, 2013 and men drinking coffee at a five star hotel in Beijing. -
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A family walks past a street vendor selling women's clothes in a market for migrant workers in Beijing and a woman paying her bill at a foreign luxury brand's boutique in Beijing. -
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A migrant worker eats dinner as he watches his neighbors gambling in an alley and a bartender holds Champagne glasses at a reception prior to the fashion show. -
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Mannequins at a shop selling wool jackets at a market for migrant workers in Beijing and a clerk putting a shoe on the foot of a mannequin at a luxury shopping mall in Beijing. -
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Sex toys at a sex shop in a residential area for migrant workers in Beijing July 17, 2013 and Sex shops with neon signs at a wealthy district in Beijing. -
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A dog rummaging for food in a garbage can at a residential area for migrant workers in Beijing and a woman wearing a fur coat holding her pet dog at a book store inside an airport in Beijing. -
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A public toilet in a half-demolished old town where new skyscrapers will be built in Beijing February 21, 2013 and a boy using a toilet inside a department store at a shopping district in Beijing. -
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A store district in a residential area for migrant workers in Beijing and luxury brands shops at a shopping complex in Beijing. -
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A female farmer takes a nap in a field about 80 km from Beijing and staff demonstrate their full-body massage treatment at a spa. -
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A 20-year-old apartment and a high rise apartment in Beijing. -
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Men eat their lunch on a street for about 1.60 and people having dinner worth about 60 - 80 at a restaurant in Beijing. -
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A man walks in a alley at a half-demolished, old residential site and a woman walks with her pet dog at a wealthy residential and commercial complex. -
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A man makes noodles with dough at his makeshift restaurant in a half-destroyed, old residential area and chefs cook a meal at a restaurant in a wealthy district in Beijing. -
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A boy stands in his house in a residential area for migrant workers and a child plays in a ball pit at an indoor playground for children in a wealthy district in Beijing. -
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A vendor sells wooden baskets and brooms at a half-demolished, old residential area where new skyscrapers will be built and a man stands in a supermarket near a newly-built residential complex also in Beijing. -
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A man sits in a wheelchair in front of his house in a residential area for migrant workers in Beijing and a resident of the Beijing First Social Welfare Institution affiliated nursing home poses in her bedroom in the nursing home. -
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A garbage collector rummages through trash cans in order to find recyclable garbage in a residential area for migrant workers and a worker cleans trash cans at a shopping mall. -
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A street vendor sells stems of garlic and a clerk arranges vegetables in a fridge at a supermarket in a wealthy district of Beijing.
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