Lying in a Beijing military hospital in 1990, General Wang Zhen told a
visitor he felt betrayed. Decades after he risked his life fighting for
an egalitarian utopia, the ideals he held as one of Communist China’s
founding fathers were being undermined by the capitalist ways of his
children -- business leaders in finance, aviation and computers.
“Turtle eggs,” he said to the visiting well-wisher, using a slang term for bastards. “I don’t acknowledge them as my sons.”
Two of the sons now are planning to turn a valley in northwestern China where their father once saved Mao Zedong’s
army from starvation into a $1.6 billion tourist attraction. The resort
in Nanniwan would have a revolution-era theme and tourist-friendly
versions of the cave homes in which cadres once sheltered from the cold.
One son behind the project, Wang Jun, helped build two of the country’s biggest state-owned empires: Citic (6030)
Group Corp., the state-run investment behemoth that was the first
company to sell bonds abroad since the revolution; and China Poly Group
Corp., once an arm of the military, that sold weapons and drilled for
oil in Africa.
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