Guangdong's Crisis
CSR Asia sums up what Guangdong's provincial Communist Party secretary Zhang Dejiang admitted to Chief Executive Donald Tsang and Hong Kong legislators during a private meeting last Sunday.
"Guangdong, long viewed as China’s most prosperous and fast growing province, is facing a series of crises, according to this report. Guangdong is at increasing risk of losing its economic status, its residents’ living conditions are deteriorating, and law and order are on the verge of breaking down. There have been numerous food scares, water shortages and air pollution is harmful to health. Is this the cost of rapid economic growth?"
