China has been a unique combination of Big Government Communism and Capitalism for centuries. Everything and everyone within their control is a resource to be spent for the betterment of the nation as a whole. Everything belongs to the State, and those who can work are given a basic stipend to live on. Those who produce more are allotted more, and a certain amount of graft and corruption is even encouraged. They have a very lively Black Market that is only lightly policed. It makes China difficult for many to understand. But everything and everyone belongs to the business that is China. All of it is negotiable. Until of course it is not.