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the way China could help, through its economic policy coupled with its huge financial reserves, in solving the financial global predicament. Without entering into technicalities, this section offers two relevant contributions as far as Chinese society is concerned. In the first, Liu Kaiming, founder of the Shenzhen Institute for the Study of Contemporary Society, documents in figures going by tens of millions the observations that he has gathered through interviews in villages. Such is the present fate of Chinese “farmer workers”: they are laid off because they are “migrant workers” and willy-nilly have returned home to till the land—a job for which they have neither past experience nor any recent training. The job market pressure will not be alleviated by this new migration! On a more positive note, Zhu Jiangang, founder of the Institute for Civil Society, based in Guangzhou, relates how civil society develops in China. Step by step, the imaginative creativity of some Non-Governmental Organisations, like his own, associates research, formation and community involvement into a “concerting” ensemble where new local leaders train themselves to assume new responsibilities.
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