Second is the refusal to tackle a basic structural problem: that China is a country with hundreds of millions of migrant workers, most of whom are separated from their families, who all take their holidays at exactly the same time.
Above and beyond this basic structural problem, however, recent changes in higher education – principally the implementation of the new fees regime in 2012 and the associated student protests – have put the question of university access firmly back in the political spotlight.
It was a basic structural problem where we became very consumer-oriented, very import-oriented.
He also suggested that the hard work of North Koreans to feed themselves was often wasted because their government had made little headway in solving basic economic and structural problems, like finding a reliable source of fuel.
They may worsen French income distribution and create more economic insecurity, but that will not resolve the real structural problems that have collapsed the centrist parties in France, whose basic program Macron will likely continue to implement.
"An iPhone app isn't going to change structural problems in democracy," so civic hackers often focus on improving basic public services instead, said David Sasaki, an expert in open government and technology for the Omidyar Network in Latin America.
But structural problems remain.
