Outdoor
Water Heaters
Coleman Heaters for the Chinese Rural
Areas
There could be a big demand now for
camping
heaters in the remote rural areas of the Chinese mainland. Whereas
conditions in the Chinese rural counties and communes when Mao Tse
Tung took over as overall Chinese leader were miserable at first,
these gradually improved as the hard discipline imposed by the Communist
rulers on the Chinese masses began to bear fruit, leading to better
lives for the people especially those living in the remote interiors
of China.
One disciplinary tactic Mao Tse Tung used and succeeded in making
the people to mobilize, to stop the occurrence of the yearly famines
among the more than a billion people in China, was his decree on
the production of food. The decree required that everybody in the
country, starting from himself as the national leader, down to the
lowest Chinese citizen, was to contribute one week of their year
in agricultural labor, to help produce enough food for the people
year round, thus putting an end to the yearly famines.
IN those years, the people out in the Chinese boondocks were so
poor the only way they could keep themselves warm in their mud huts
during the winter was to sleep on top of oven-like structures with
a steady fire burning underneath them. There was no electricity
in the communes then, and the winter cold was a major problem with
which the people had to contend.
The food production decree has succeeded in uplifting the lives
of the ordinary folks, and they can now afford things like the outdoor
water heaters for their use in the wintertime. Since the death
of Mao Tse Tung the country's leaders succeeding him have somehow
opened the country to the world, and have resulted in China now
being one of the world's economic giants.
The Chinese population of more than a billion people has been the
main asset the Chinese leaders used in their struggle to improve
the country's economic condition, as industries began to develop
all over the country. The new Chinese prosperity makes now every
Chinese family in the countryside a potential user of the Coleman
heater in the winter, indeed quite a huge market for the winter
equipment.
Foreign companies have moved much of their
manufacturing operations to China as labor are quite cheap, cutting
substantially their overhead cost figures in that area. The main
reason China’s labor cost is low is because food for the Chinese
family is practically free with their yearly mass production of
food by the Chinese population.
Called by the Chinese people themselves
as the great leveler in Chinese society, aside from death, this
yearly requirement for everybody to contribute one week of work
in the farms, has lead to much prosperity among the masses. Companies
like Coleman will do well to expand the marketing of their catalytic
tent heater to China’s over a billion people, with many of them
still living in rural areas.
While some rural communities may still
lack electricity the people there now are no longer as poor as before,
they now can afford catalytic
propane heaters, as better sources of heat during their sleeping
hours.
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