As experiments go, this is a doozy................

     This is the Chinese dream, a faith on the part of the middle-class citizens that their efforts will be rewarded, and faith that they will be able to keep most of those rewards for themselves.  China delivers the thing that most citizens want in most countries most years:  a sense that life is getting better.  The second part of the dream, the part that is in the background of the American dream but in the foreground in many places here, is the link between personal success and national greatness.  This is the Chinese Dream, upper-case, and it is now being pushed by the current government on billboards and in public announcements all over the country.
     Beijing wants a country whose citizens enjoy a high degree of economic freedom, a high degree of personal freedom, and a low degree of political freedom.  This is a strange mix, and a novel one...China, by contrast and almost uniquely, uses a vibrant market to convince the citizenry that their views of governance are both unneeded and irrelevant.

Clay Shirky,  Little Rice:  Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream