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Everyone who responded to my initial comment was getting caught up on the existence of billionaires in Chinese society, so that's what I responded to.
As to whether or not Chinese people are empowered under the Chinese system, let's ask them their feelings instead of projecting our assumptions onto them from the other side of the world!
This is just a small part of a very informative piece. The Chinese system actively seeks to integrate public opinion and average people's voices at all levels of decision making, empowering them far more than any other democracy on the planet. This is called "whole-process democracy", and is the only system of its kind and scale where the citizens' participation in their government doesn't stop at selecting a representative.
That's literally what a town hall style meeting is. Every Western democracy does that. It's the bare fucking minimum. It's very strange that you're treating that as radical or an innovation.