How i spend my money is none of your business

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Unhealthy obsession: Lonely Chinese woman, 81, buys breast-enhancement pills and health goods worth 160,000 yuan in six months

PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 23 December, 2015, 5:02pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 23 December, 2015, 5:02pm

Gloria Chan
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A Chinese woman has a huge pile of boxes of health products stacked inside her home in Shaanxi province – many unopened – after buying 160,000 yuan of goods over the phone in the past six months. Photo: News.163.com

A lonely Chinese woman aged 81 spent more than 160,000 yuan (HK$ 191,000) on breast-enhancement pills and other health products in only six months, mainland media reports.

The retired teacher, identified only by her surname, Wang, who lives alone in the city of Hanzhong, in Shaanxi province, had bought the products by phone after becoming friendly with telephone salesperson at marketing company, the local newspaper Huashang Daily reported on Tuesday.

The woman now had a huge pile of health products – mostly unopened – sitting in her 15 square metre flat, it said.

The woman’s daughter recently made an official complaint to the city’s Consumer Complaints Centre after becoming concerned after her mother began to ask to borrow money from relatives, despite having a stable income from her pension and her children.

“To stop her from buying health products, we have confiscated eight mobile phones from her,” Feng said.

Cang Hongjie, director of the complaints centre, said Wang had started to buy the health products after reading a magazine advertisement.

The marketing company had reportedly used flattery and promises of small favours to encourage Wang to buy the products, Cang said.

However, since the company only sold the goods, and relied on another company to distribute the products, it would be difficult to investigate the matter further, Cang said.

 

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More Than 82 Million Chinese Live on Less Than $1 a Day

China lifted nearly 40 million people out of poverty last year, by its own measure, but more than 82 million rural Chinese still get by on less than $1 a day, a senior government official said.

“Poverty is still a salient problem in China,” Zheng Wenkai, a vice-minister at a government office responsible for poverty alleviation and development, said at a news briefing Tuesday, according to the state-run China Daily newspaper. About 200 million Chinese, or 15% of the country’s population, would be considered poor by international poverty measures, set at $1.25 a day, Mr. Zheng added.

China’s poor are often beset by inadequate infrastructure and a lack of access to education, health care and loans, and are vulnerable to natural disasters, Mr. Zheng said at the briefing, according to the Global Times tabloid.

“It’s a tough nut to crack,” Mr. Zheng said, according to the Global Times. “Poverty is a weak point for our goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects by 2020.”

China defines its rural poor as people who earn annual net income per capita of 2,300 Chinese yuan (about $375) or less, or roughly $1 a day. The World Bank, meanwhile, classifies people who subsist on less than $1.25 a day as living in “extreme poverty.”

Although China’s poverty line appears lower, some analysts say that level of income can provide for more consumption in rural China compared with the World Bank threshold, which is benchmarked to 2005 prices.

China accounted for 8% of the world’s “extreme poor” as of 2011, down from 13% a year earlier, according to the latest World Bank estimates. Only two countries contributed a larger share in 2011—India with 30% and Nigeria with 10%.

Even so, China and India have been instrumental in reducing global poor in recent years, lifting a combined 232 million people above the international poverty line from 2008 to 2011, the World Bank said in a report released last week. China, on its part, lifted nearly 90 million people out of poverty, according to the report.

Roughly 1 billion people—or 14.5% of the world’s population—were living in “extreme poverty” in 2011, down from 1.25 billion three years earlier, the report said.

Rural-urban migration in China, like elsewhere around the world, has been instrumental in reducing poverty rates. About 53.7% of China’s population lived in urban areas by the end of last year, up from 40.5% a decade earlier, according to China’s National Bureau of Statistics.

In March, China’s government said it plans to boost the urbanization rate to 60% by 2020, though this would still fall short of an average 80% urbanization seen in developed countries.

— Chun Han Wong. Follow Chun Han on Twitter @ByChunHan

 

[eatshitndie]

same obsession cumming to oxley rise.

 

[jw5]

Don't be a kaypohcheebye. Leave the gongcheebye alone.

 

[johnny333]

same obsession cumming to oxley rise.

Ho Ching doesn't live at Oxley. She's living in the Namly area.

 

[eatshitndie]

Ho Ching doesn't live at Oxley. She's living in the Namly area.

not referring to the ho. the operative word is "lonely."