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CDB is similar to other development banks around the world in that, in order to speed economic development, it lends to borrowers that other commercial banks would typically ignore. But the Chinese policy bank also has significant differences with its counterparts abroad.

THEY are factories whose unwilling workers produce goods ranging from tea to engines, some of them for export. Since they were established by Mao Zedong, millions have died within their walls.

Now the hated laogai labour camps, where transgressors and dissidents are incarcerated for months of "reform through labour", will provide the first big test for the reforming intentions of the new Chinese leadership.

Repeal of “Reeducation through Labor” is Merely a “Reform” Tactic of the Chinese Communist Party

Harry Wu

 “Laojiao”—“reeducation through labor”—is a repressive regime of the Chinese Communist Party and an integral part of the laogai system.