BEIJING (AP) - Sun Millionaire China to build skyscrapers in Beijing and is one of those people to the economic power of China on track to become the largest in the world.
He sits at the top of the country - the economy is booming, the flu is spreading, swelling of the military - generally expected to dominate the 21 century.
Still, shares the developer structure something surprising to many of the new rich in China are looking forward to the day you can leave.
His reasons: he wants to protect your property, you have to see what it says in China and want a second child, something against the law for many Chinese.
The billionaire spoke to The Associated Press on condition that his name was used for fear of government reprisals that could damage your business.
Richest in China are increasingly investing abroad to obtain a foreign passport, for business and travel, but also easier to give them a way out of China.
The United States is the most popular destination for Chinese migrants, with rich Chinese touting its health and education systems. Last year, nearly 68,000 Chinese people became legal permanent residents of the United States, seven percent of the total, second only to those born in Mexico. Canada and Australia are also popular.
It is an unfortunate tendency to Chinese Communist leaders have attached to the legitimacy of the party system on the delivery of economic growth and rising living standards. They managed to raise tens of millions of ordinary Chinese in poverty while creating a new class of super rich. However, the wealth only seems to be a bad deal with them the means to live elsewhere.
Despite economic freedom, once again, the Communist government has maintained control over many aspects of everyday life. China's leaders punished, sometimes harshly, public dissent and any perceived challenge to their power to censor what can be read online and in print. Authoritarian regime, meanwhile, has been ineffective in the treatment of long-standing problems of pollution, contaminated food and health care cracks.
"In China, nothing is yours. Want to buy a house. You buy it, but it is for the country 70 years later, "said Su, deplored the system of government land lease.
"But abroad, if you buy a house, it is yours forever," he said. "So many business people and officials are like that. They are concerned about the safety of their assets."
Leo Liu, director of marketing consultants GOLDLINK migration Beijing, said the company has noticed a growing trend of wealthy Chinese who want to emigrate, especially in Canada, the 15 years since its founding.
Of the main reasons people want to move abroad, he said, are educating their children and improve health care. Some want to go, because the money illegally, as corrupt government officials and businessmen, while others are inspired by friends who have already moved to the U.S.
"They want to get a green card, although they can still do business here in China," Liu said. "They could have sent their wives and children abroad.
"And some of them love living in a foreign country, the western style," he said.
It is also a gulf between rich and poor in China, which feeds the resentment that makes some people uncomfortable rich. Go to the Earth's irregular capitalism over the past three decades has created dozens of millionaires, but China is not the largest among the 100 countries of the World Bank's list of per capita income.
Obtain a foreign passport is like "insurance," said Rupert Hoogewerf, which brings together Hurun Rich List, the Chinese version of Forbes.
"If there is political instability or suddenly change things in China - because it is a great country, something might go wrong - they already have a passport to travel abroad This is an extra safety net .."
Of the 20 000 for at least 100 million Chinese yuan ($ 15 million) in the properties of individual investment, 27 percent have already been modified, and 47 percent is considered, according to the report, China Merchants Bank, and the U.S. consultancy Bain & Co., published in April.
Nearly 60 percent of respondents said they worried about their children's education is one reason for wanting to leave.
A millionaire who works in the coal industry, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said the main objective behind its plans to migrate the Chinese school system focused on the test, often criticized by the students can take production tests, but lack of job skills.
She takes her 7 years, children have graduated from American International school in Beijing, where students are taught in English.
"The United States has a good education and excellent health care," said the 39-year-old, who has three active centers in China and a value of $ 5 million. "Therefore, we can not wait to go."
Other reasons cited in the Merchants Bank is to protect assets and prepare for retirement. Also cited as reasons for departure have more children and make it easier to develop a business abroad.
In addition to the increased migration was also a massive inflow of private capital in China, despite the tight currency controls. The report estimates that China's rich - those with assets of more than 10 million yuan - about 3.6 billion yuan (564 billion U.S. dollars) to invest abroad.
"The Chinese economy now looks like a massive funnel," said Zhong Dajun, director of the nongovernmental Dajun Economic Observer and education in Beijing.
Zhong said that it is mostly corrupt officials, which transfers all the fortunes abroad, because they were looted and "they are afraid and feel guilty."
Rich Russians have established footholds abroad over the past ten years, seeking a safe haven as well as their money and their children. In recent years the trend has expanded to Russia's emerging middle class. They can not afford to invest in London, a favorite destination for Russian billionaires and millionaires, so it is free to set up second homes in less expensive countries in Europe, including as the Czech Republic, which were once part of the Soviet bloc.
Su, the developer intends to stay in China and continue to build high-rise residential and office buildings for another 10 years because he feared it would be too difficult for him to repeat the commercial success of the continent and abroad.
His wife is already in the U.S., expecting their second child. Less than the Chinese one-child policy in force for the last three decades, population growth, couples can be penalized by the fact that more than one child. Beijing, the penalty is a one-time payment of 3-10 times the average income in the city, up to 250,000 yuan (40,000 U.S. dollars).
"Living conditions are better abroad, such as housing conditions, food security and education," said the millionaire as he dined in the VIP room of a restaurant in Beijing. Lowering his voice, told the rich there are many concerns about the authoritarian government. "This is a very sensitive issue. Everyone knows that. Is more free and just abroad," he said.
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