Chinese Regime Tasks Business Executives With Solving Its Poverty Problem

People eat dinner on the streets of a migrant village on the outskirts of Beijing, on August 17, 2017. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images

As social scientists will tell you, an uptick in poverty often leads to more crime and unrest.

In its history, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been especially wary of potential social turmoil that could undermine its rule: see its brutal suppression of student democracy activists at Tiananmen Square in 1989, or its internet and media censorship apparatus wired to detect dissent against the Party.