by TIANTIAN XIANGSHANG
Education Correspondent
BEIJING (China Daily Show) — Citing an unforeseen increase in third-quarter Brazilian tobacco exports, a Chinese primary school student has called for “sweeping changes in China’s entire macroeconomic strategy”.
Liu Pingwei, 7, highest-ranked math student and Junior Communist League Oversight Subcommittee co-chairman at Beijing No. 11 Primary School, posted on his blog (itsthechineseeconomystupid.cn) Monday that the small but sudden shift in the global economic balance could lead to mass suicides in the Chinese countryside, where struggling tobacco farmers rely on government subsidies for survival.
According to Liu, the trickle-up devastation will be far-reaching and long-lasting.
In a strongly-worded directive sent to 300 top party members, Liu urged Beijing to consider subsidies in “no less than 37 other economic sectors,” but namely “China’s ailing confectionery industry.”
“The deaths of so many of my countryside comrades’ parents,” explained Liu, “requires an immediate increase in candy subsidies for school children. Not only for countryside school children, but for all young comrades, say, under the age of 10? This would no doubt engender governmental goodwill among the post-00 generation.”
Liu, affectionately known by his peers as “Xiao Enlai,” reached international fame in September in his open letter to the party, signed by five other Junior Communist League Members (known as “the September Six”) in which they jointly called for greater economic freedoms, while shying away from any outright mention of political reform.
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