I think it's foolish to pretend that we know the percentages that each one contributes. What proportion of the Chinese economy was generated privately versus publicly over this time period we're talking about in the last 40 years? And that's a somewhat answerable question. We know some measure of how many people left the countryside and went to the city. So these are all issues that are extremely, how should they say, the combination, recombination is unique and very challenging for us to understand.

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