Xi's China: Why entrepreneurs feel like second-class citizens

CHONGQING • Born into extreme poverty in rural China, Liu Chonghua amassed enough wealth selling cakes to the country's emerging middle class to build himself six European-style castles.
Five are tourist attractions, but the grandest of all was designed as a home: A grey stone structure resembling Britain's Windsor Castle, built on land the 65-year-old entrepreneur acquired from the government of the south-western city of Chongqing in the 1990s.
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