{"id":11266,"date":"2014-07-29T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11266"},"modified":"2014-07-26T18:28:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T22:28:18","slug":"building-a-golf-course-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/building-a-golf-course-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Building A Golf Course In China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/072614_2218_BuildingAGo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dan Washburn wrote about what it takes to build a golf course in China:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beijing has announced a moratorium on new golf courses. That&#8217;s why these days &#8220;resorts&#8221; and &#8220;exercise fields&#8221; with golf holes are all the rage.<\/li>\n<li>Developers will hire local villages as subcontractors. The village head will get about five yuan a day for every village labourer, and this tidy profit will ensure the village&#8217;s support in case any land disputes pop up.<\/li>\n<li>Canny operators will appoint CEOs &#8220;Chief Entertainment Officers&#8221; whose sole responsibility is to maintain good relationships with government officials by paying for meals and trips, to ensure their support.<\/li>\n<li>Not that they need to try too hard. Entertainment venues are taxed at an expensive 23.5% in China, which is why local governments are eager to have them set up shop and enrich the local treasury.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the tips and hacks that developers exploit, what happens when foreign companies try to do the same, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/237209\/to-get-a-golf-course-built-in-china-call-it-a-resort\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/237209\/to-get-a-golf-course-built-in-china-call-it-a-resort\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Washburn wrote about what it takes to build a golf course in China: Beijing has announced a moratorium on new golf courses. That&#8217;s why these days &#8220;resorts&#8221; and &#8220;exercise fields&#8221; with golf holes are all the rage. Developers will hire local villages as subcontractors. The village head will get about five yuan a day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/072614_2218_BuildingAGo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11272,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266\/revisions\/11272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}