Cosmetic Comrades
Everybody knows one of the prime reasons for having any cosmetic plastic surgery is to increase self confidence; if 
you know you look good, you are more outgoing and warm.
An increasingly second reason is found in the workplace. Nobody wants to look haggard, tired or careworn due to aging features.
And that seems to apply to all peoples, worldwide.
It used to be that the East was strictly Red. China is still plenty Red but also more concerned about having red faces due to their appearances in public.
Hey, any government official courting big-spending capitalists has to promote an image of ability, energy and warmth if he is going to seal the deal!
Thus, many more Chinese communist government officials have been going under the knife for plastic surgery at Beijing’s Union Medical College, according to senior surgeon Chen Huanran who says 500 government workers yearly are having cosmetic plastic surgery to enhance the “strong features” the Chinese public expects of its leaders.
According to Huanran, more officials in the 40 to 60 age bracket are going on television and making other public appearances. The surgeon also says about 20 percent of his own patients are employed by the Chinese government:
Thus, the most popular cosmetic procedures among this group of Comrades are:
- Eyelid lift
- Botox & wrinkle fillers
- Facial reconstruction and rejuvenation.
Because the Chinese government is so heavily involved in rounding up foreign investments, many foreign marketing firms also make gifts of cosmetic surgery to Chinese officials and their wives.
In China, plastic surgery is a $243 billion dollar industry that is growing 20 percent yearly.
Is it any wonder China organized its own beauty contest for plastic surgery patients much like the recent Miss Plastic Hungary contest?
admin @ January 14, 2010
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