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'Rich baby' sparks anger with her lavish lifestyle

Shanghai Daily, September 26, 2011

• An official report showed that in 2010, the average resident in Jinping County earned 2,109 yuan. About 92 percent of the county's 200,000 population is involved in farming.

  Online, there were claims that You was just the latest in a long line of what people are calling China's growing group of "daddy-entrapping rich babies," meaning children of government officials or celebrities who cause their fathers to become the subject of scandal rumors because of their lavish spending on luxury goods.

  You tried to answer her critics yesterday by updating her microblog to accuse them of "libel" and saying she did not know what she had done wrong.

  By yesterday, the Jinping County government had not responded to questions about the controversy.

  "Ironically, some government officials' children and lovers who couldn't help showing off wealth online may appear to be an effective power to help uncovering corruption details," an anonymous blogger commented on the woman's microblog.

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