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It turns out that there is also “advertising” for gold and silver in China, too. The big difference here is that it is China's government which is advertising the “opportunities” in gold and silver and it is urging the Chinese people to buy gold and silver.
An article from mining web-site, Mineweb quotes a program which appears on China's largest (state-owned) television company, promoting bullion-buying in general, but stressing that silver is currently the best value for investors (no surprise to regular readers):
https://seekingalpha.com/articleChinese government told/encourages its citizens to buy gold and silver in 2012.
Dude, you cited an article that was published 9 years ago. Could you find a more outdated and irrelevant article to base a post on? Since this article was published so long ago, we have a decent amount of hindsight with which to judge the ideas presented in it. Like this:
Whether the official urging by the Chinese government for its citizens to buy precious metals is merely prudent, “fatherly” advise to its citizens, or part of a somewhat more sinister campaign the result will be the same: soaring precious metals prices indefinitely into the future.
Let's check in on this little gem.
Price of gold end of 2009: $1,087.50
Current price of gold 2018: $1,300.00
Return: 19.54%S&P 500 end of 2009: $1,123.58
S&P 500 currently: $2,778.53
Return: 147.29%Result:
FAILURE.Gold has been a horrible investment since that article was published. Less than 20% return over 9 years is garbage, you probably could have gotten that buying treasury bills.