Saturday, May 11, 2013

China‘s Graveyard: Only for Government Officials

This is a TIC (This Is China) joke spreading through twitter-like Sina Weibo:

Guangzhou is to spend RMB 620 million yuan (about US $100 million) on a Galaxy Graveyard specially only for government officials including soldiers. The staff of the graveyard also confirmed: the prerequisite (to be served inside) is that the dead must be a party-member cadre.

And then a fake interview posted online: a People's Daily journalist asks an old man his view of the news about the official-dedicated graveyard, "What do you think about that?" the reporter asks. The old man thinks deeply for a minute and then asks, "Will they be buried alive?"

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