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Communist China at 60 and digital Rwanda

As China turns 60, can it still make its living from cheap labour? Also digital Rwanda. Plus how coins have vanished from the tills in Zimbabwe.

As China celebrates 60 years of the People's Republic Business Weekly asks is it out-growing the economic model that's brought it global success? Is the country heading for a future of labour shortages? We speak to Cai Fang, a director of the elite Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which advises on government policy. He's also a senior law-maker and a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
Also Rwanda's ambitious efforts to become an internet economy. The 麻豆社's Technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones has been to Rwanda to meet some of the people driving this vision forward, including Patrick Nyirishema from the Rwanda Development Board and Richard Nyonkuru from Rwanda's ministry of education.
Plus the price of change - how coins have vanished from the tills in Zimbabwe.

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28 minutes

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Sun 4 Oct 2009 17:32GMT

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