https://www.wsj.com/articles/xi-jinping-china-economy-growth-poverty-tech-beijing-11636915358

China’s extraordinary economic rise planted a belief in the country that just about anyone can succeed if they work hard—a key component of Xi Jinping’s “China Dream.”

For more and more Chinese, however, that is no longer true.

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