Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure Series. 2025: Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and Shaanxi Provinces’ Red Tour. Short videos, captioned photos, articles and commentary. The REAL Chinese people you don’t know!

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Commentary about public and private ownership. This is life among the Chinese.

China is so successful, it can only be capitalist, right?

Westerners go out of their way to show that China is capitalist. Why? Because the Chinese are so successful, prosperous and gringos are totally Judeo-brainwashed that capitalism is the only economic system that works (for the people?), then China must be capitalist, right?

Consumer capitalism is one aspect of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. High volume, low margin products and services are mostly in the private sector, Chinese, joint-venture and wholly-owned foreign. To wit,

Light vehicles, like cars and trucks.

Mobile phones, TVs, electronics and the like.

Home appliances, furniture, etc.

Toiletries, clothing, shoes, souvenirs, food, consumables and everything you buy in supermarkets.

Millions of SMEs in light manufacturing that produce much of the goods for the aforementioned sectors.

Restaurants, retail outlets, pharmacies, taxi/bus companies and countess millions of mom and pop stores.

Service providers in every sector imaginable, from one-person entrepreneurs to SMEs to national behemoths.

Tech companies from some of the world’s biggest (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, etc., all heavily state-managed) down to local SMEs.

Silver screen/TV movie-series studios, which are growing leaps and bounds and snuffing out Judeo-Hollywood and New York.

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Hold your capitalist horses

For all you gloating capitalists, don’t get your hopes up. This is what you see every day, street level, so it’s easy to be mesmerized. It looks impressive, since it is broad, yet it is thin. Notice above, I italicized and underlined mostly, because the farmers grow collectively (even though officially, they each have their plot of land) and there are still countless people-owned SMEs and service companies, especially at the provincial, local and rural levels.

What’s underneath the retail hood?

Almost all of it is people-powered in state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The means of production in the 100 great industries are still controlled by Baba Beijing. To wit,

Land and real estate. No one can own dirt. You and I and McDonald’s can get 70-year, fungible, renewable leases on green land and buildings. No more.

Banks are 99.9% people-owned, including the People’s Bank of China, which mints its own money. Capitalist countries NOT!

Insurance companies are 99.9% people-owned.

All stock and commodity markets.

Hospitals, clinics and retirement homes, although the private sector is growing the pie.

All airlines (think Delta and Lufthansa).

Airplane manufacturing (think Airbus and Boeing).

All telecoms (think Vodaphone, T-Mobile and cable companies).

All ports, airports, roads, toll roads, canals, 95% of admission parks and museums, etc.

All utilities, water, gas, electricity, including nuclear/coal power plants, renewables, grids and networks. All this is being stolen from the people for the 1% in the West.

Oil/gas companies and 99.9% of their gas stations. Shell Oil has been accorded a handful up north.

Global shipping companies (think Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd).

Mining companies are 90% people-owned (think Rio-Tinto and BHP).

Steel and metallurgy are 90% people owned (think ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel).

95% of all heavy industry and manufacturing.

Aerospace, aeronautics and avionics are 95% people-owned. A couple of private companies are building and launching satellites. This private sector is growing.

Defense and military contractors, although some small private companies are vendors and is slowly growing.

TV media 100% and the vast majority of print media are people-owned, all state-managed.

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Commentary conclusion

What’s left? Not much. Keep deluding yourself, by repeating the Judeo-neoliberal hoax, China is capitalist, China is capitalist, China is capitalist… Yes for refrigerators, cars, mobile phones and TVs, but not much else.

The Hengyang Railroad Museum

Right next to trendy Baoweili District, reported on in the last post (https://radiosinoland.com/2025/08/01/amirjeffs-excellent-china-adventure-16-hengyang-hunan-province-chinese-cities-love-to-develop-trendy-artsy-districts-for-the-citizens-to-enjoy-must-read-commentary-and-14-captioned-photos/), is the Hengyang Railroad Museum. What makes it interesting is that it is entirely private, owned and operated by 82-year-old Deng Tinglu. This is what is called public-private cooperation. It’s his long-leased property, everything inside it he collected, while Hengyang City promotes his museum and benefits from it being a tourist attraction.

It is not more than 100 square meters, but is choker block full of memorabilia that he collected during his long career working on the rail lines, starting in the Mao Era.

Mr. Deng wrote a book for middle school children and above called (in English) 21st Century Railway Pleasure Roaming Journal, which I bought and he signed and stamped the title page. It is really cute, with lots of entertaining ink drawings for the kiddos.

Mr. Deng’s children book, 21st Century Railway Pleasure Roaming Journal.

He also published a museum catalogue, which is full of color photos of the items and displays. Really fascinating.

Hengyang Railroad Museum catalogue put together by owner Mr. Deng.

The rest of the story is thanks to Amir’s great visuals.

Photos by Amir

Enjoy Amir’s photos and my captions!

Amir&Jeff inside the Hengyang Railway Museum, with owner Deng Tinglu. Mr. Deng is very humble, yet obviously Confucist proud of his life’s work and impressive collection. Who knows? Maybe my family and I met him on one of our many rides around the country, 1990-1997.

There are about four rooms like this full of memorabilia. Family members were there to keep Mr. Deng company. He makes money selling books, with some railway items for sale, as well as ice cream in the foreground.

Amir bought a high-speed train lighter.

A 1970s Mao-Era, revolutionary comic books for kids, with a railroad theme, called Red Lantern Journal.

Mr. Deng with his wife, outside their little museum. Looks like they need an electric buggy to get around.

Outside the museum, Mr. Deng created a really nice cut-out façade of a postcard, so Amir&Jeff took advantage of it! The origin-destination name plate on the slow train below the three window says, Passing from Hengyang into the future. What a great metaphor for the Chinese people surging into the 22nd century…

You can see this celebrated logo everywhere you go in China.

ALL ABOARD!

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