China Girl Flaunts Wealth in Blog

I share with you an interesting phenomenon: growing rich young people of China:

"Baby Guo Meimei, whose real name is Guo Meiling, is a 20 year old woman, who stirred national outrage by flaunting her wealth under the identity of general manager of Red Cross Commerce on Sina's microblog (weibo), known as China's twitter.

Her showing off sparked wide suspicion as people questioned how a young woman working for a charitable organization could be so wealthy. According to Guo's weibo, she lived in a big villa in Beijing, drove Maserati and possessed a number of Hermes handbags."

Guo Mei Mei posing in a photo to post on her blog to

show off her luxurious lifestyle on July 5

She used the Red Cross Society to amass her fortune. how, I don't know...donations?.....

"Her flamboyance affected the credibility of Red Cross Society of China, to which Guo had claimed her company affiliated. Infuriated micro-bloggers threatened to boycott the charitable society because they thought it was riddled with corruptions. Rumors also circulated that Guo was the daughter of Guo Changjiang, vice president of Red Cross Society of China. However, Guo Changjiang denied he had a daughter."

Guo MeiMei and her Maserati sports car

"She has had plastic surgery before, previously rented in Shenzhen and Beijing, dressed and decorated her room very ordinarily, and was using a domestic clam shell mobile phone [not foreign name brand like Apple, Samsung, or Nokia].

Yet in less than 2 years, she’s moved into a large villa, is driving a luxury sports car, and has suddenly become rich."

 In her microblog, Ms Guo, whose name "Mei" means "pretty", has posted photos of herself with the sports cars, a pile of luxury Hermes handbags, sipping drinks in business class on a flight and showing off her luxury villa.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-tale-of-the-girl-called-pretty-pretty--baby-her-extravagant-lifestyle-and-the-chinese-red-cross-20110707-1h3ml.html#ixzz1jLIxBP8p

 Living the high life ... Guo Meimei Baby travelling business class   Photo: AFP

Suspicious Chinese netizens are asking how a young woman such as Ms Guo came into such wealth. Did she or her boyfriend embezzle money from the Red Cross to line their own pockets?

The Red Cross of China is one of the country's largest charities and has strong ties to the communist government. And evidence of Ms Guo's extravagant lifestyle has made the Chinese suspicious in a country where the divide between rich and poor is growing and corruption is rife.

On Weibo alone, more than 600,000 posts a day were written about Ms Guo, London's Daily Telegraph reported. It claims more than 140 million users.