[HN Gopher] Beijing now has more billionaires than any city
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       Beijing now has more billionaires than any city
        
       Author : seriousquestion
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2021-04-12 19:10 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bbc.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
        
       | mensetmanusman wrote:
       | The more interesting question is how many of them are not members
       | of the CCP?
       | 
       | https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/china-comrade-billion...
        
         | zeb88 wrote:
         | Let me guess, 'all of them'.
        
           | whimsicalism wrote:
           | I mean, large portions of Chinese citizens are aligned
           | directly with the CCP or members.
        
           | redis_mlc wrote:
           | Not sure what you mean, but all billionaires would either be
           | CCP, or under their close direction. Companies over 50
           | employees have an on-premise staff CCP cell, and Xi is
           | reversing the relative operating independence of existing
           | companies.
        
       | gumby wrote:
       | Does "Beijing" refer to a conurbation or larger division than a
       | city? If so, greater New York surely has more as it would include
       | Westchester and chunks of NJ as well.
       | 
       | If the BBC means the municipality itself, then their headline
       | contains a Russell's Paradox (BR himself used a barber, not
       | billionaire). In this case, regardless of the BBC's title, HN
       | should insert "other" between "any" and "city".
        
         | tablespoon wrote:
         | > Does "Beijing" refer to a conurbation or larger division than
         | a city?
         | 
         | Bejing is a province-level municipality:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-administered_municipali...
         | 
         | > A municipality is often not a "city" in the usual sense of
         | the term (i.e., a large continuous urban settlement), but
         | instead an administrative unit comprising, typically, a main
         | central urban area (a city in the usual sense, usually with the
         | same name as the municipality), and its much larger surrounding
         | rural area containing many smaller cities (districts and
         | subdistricts), towns and villages. The larger municipality
         | spans over 100 kilometres (62 mi). To distinguish a
         | "municipality" from its actual urban area (the traditional
         | meaning of the word city), the term "urban area" (Chinese: Shi
         | Qu ) is used.
        
       | aussiegreenie wrote:
       | I am sure Mao and the Red Guards would be surprised.
        
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