CCTV FOLLIES 4.18 A SINGLE FINGER POINTS THE WAY

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One day, historians of the era will try to trace the origins of the fantastic consumer boom that engulfs China right now, reinvigorating the economy and paving the way for future greatness. One would be remiss not to include this now iconic shot of the paramount leader pointing at knick knacks as the key moment, the crucible, the single spark that lit the consumer spending prairie fire.

For as today’s top news story instructs, no sooner did the man pictured above begin to point his finger at tourist brik-a-brak and consumer comestibles, did a giant wave of consumerism surge its way across the face of China, from the Great Wall to distant lands with minority ethnic groups to massive urban malls.

Yes, even modern shopping malls were beneficiaries of His most gracious gesture