China's wealthy elite

In 2008, the report said China had 1.6 million wealthy households. By 2015, it will have more than 4 million, making it the world's fourth-largest country in terms of its number of wealthy households after the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom. This can be point to China's extraordinary economic growth that it has seen in the last 25 years.

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