China’s Five Year Plan Video is a Trip to 1973
How do you make China’s 13th five-year plan, a far too dense document laying out the country’s future economic strategy from 2015-2020, appeal to the masses? Make a crazy ass video that’s the love child of Schoolhouse Rock and Joseph Goebbels.
“If you wanna know what China’s gonna do, best pay attention to the shí sān wǔ.”
Shí sān wǔ are the Chinese words for “13-five.” So you better pay attention to it, man.
China’s Five Year Plan video is a thing of beauty. It features the Great Wall, a Volkswagen camper van, a rubber duck, disembodied lips, a mixtape, a disco ball, Albert Einstein, and a guy with poo on his head.
Revival Road Workshop
The psychedelic video was created by the incredibly mysterious Revival Road Workshop, a media company that has put out a bunch of pro-China videos.
The company was behind a propaganda video earlier this year about how much the Chinese love Russian President Vladimir Putin.
They also put out a video about what it takes to be President of the U.S. (Spoiler alert: lots of money and punching).
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Revival Road Workshop also put out a slick video about how much China is helping the southern U.S. entitled When China met Carolina.
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I wish Revival Road Workshop had been around for China’s 2nd Five Year Plan. For those of you not up on your Five Year Plans, China’s 2nd Five Year Plan was the Great Leap Forward. That one went really well. A famine that led to somewhere between 16 million and 30 million deaths.
Thirteenth Five Year Plan is the Winner
But the latest video about China’s Five Year Plan is by far the winner. It’ll have you scratching your head and wondering when you did ‘shrooms.
But the big question is, why the heck didn’t I write this for my musical China the Whole Enchilada.
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