Comrade Snowboot

@whyyoutouzhele 深圳，珠海，厦门三大经济特区的暂时成功只是因为靠近香港，澳门，台湾，并不是中共有多了不起。现在厦门因为两岸关系紧张，已经跨了，深圳珠海的好日子也快到头了。至于其他特区就没一个成功的。

Hundreds of Tibetans gathered outside the UN headquarters in New York after activist Loga Rangzen died from self immolation. They demanded justice, accountability, and an end to the Chinese Communist Party's brutal repression that has driven more than 170 Tibetans to make the ultimate sacrifice. The UN cannot remain silent while Tibet burns. #FreeTibet #IStandWithTibet #HumanRights #StopCCP #EndCCPOccupation #UnitedNations

I found this absolutely hilarious. So China has this nationwide policy called "Green Channel" (“绿通”): if you transport fresh produce like fruits or veggies, you don't need to pay highway tolls. It's real, I checked, here is a government website describing the policy: gov.cn/zhengce/202406… This is meant to reduce food costs and reduce friction in food logistics. If you're a small farmer producing - say - watermelons in Xinjiang, thousands of kms from Eastern cities, highway tolls alone could cost more than the watermelons themselves are worth. There is, however, a loophole that's going viral on Chinese social media these days 👇 It applies to pickup trucks! So if you have a pickup truck, you just need to pack the back with cheap cabbage and - voilà - free highway for you 😂 So in China these days, if you go on the highway, you're increasingly seeing more and more pickup trucks packed with fruits and veggies in the back 😅 It actually doesn't go wasted and may even work in favor of the policy. When they arrive at destination, the drivers do sell the produce so, on top of waiving highway fees, they even make a profit - basically becoming the small-scale food distributors the policy was designed to support. The video describes a driver from Zhengzhou, Henan who reportedly bought 500 yuan of cabbage, drove toll-free to Xinjiang, sold it for 1,500, then loaded up watermelons for the return trip and sold those back in Henan. He saved 2,000 RMB in highway fees and probably got his gas paid by the food profit! I'm myself planning to drive the whole summer touring Western China with my family in an RV: I wonder if it applies, I might try it! If you're in China and see a French guy driving a RV packed with cabbage, don't get surprised 😂