Buy hotlines spring VIPS China luxury goods in the middle of the anti-corruption campaign

  Anti-corruption campaign of President Xi Jinping, a new company is on the continent "important people" in a very unobtrusive way, even secret have created.

I was abandoned in Shanghai for a fast and recently by several malls on Nanjing Road, one of the busiest streets of the mainland trip. Ironically, these malls - and especially large stores of luxury brands inside - do not look too crowded. They were almost empty.

I asked my friends to know how these businesses have survived in such circumstances. Some laughed at me, joking that I long to be away from Shanghai and said that I did. Out of the loop about the latest tricks

Social media like microblogging service Weibo has to help himself as an effective instrument of social control and their suspicions of corruption. So now, if someone wants to buy large luxury goods, but do not want for any reason, to be seen in the store, he or she simply calls a hotline and demand for the product to their be delivered at home, where they pay cash on delivery.

Just as important as these people choose between all the different types of handbags and shoes without visiting the shops? They use the Internet or a catalog of the products that are sent to the VIP lists.

One of my friends in retail Shanghai said that many of the durability of these boutiques grew busier since Xi took office earlier this year launched and quickly a national campaign to combat corruption at all levels. This explains why, although stores may be empty, businesses are not as bad as you might think.

Such practices are common in the luxury shops of Hong Kong as well. The wives and daughters of government officials will do their best to avoid visiting the shops of luxury goods in Tsim Sha Tsui, when they travel to Hong Kong, for example. Instead, they call hotlines VIP and what they want their room will be a few hours.

You can even avoid, avoid restaurants reported to have taken part in expensive banquets.

How can they do that? Well, in Shanghai, there are now some new private houses that are popular among the VIPs. It may be nothing more than the old three-storey villas in an ordinary residential area, but behind this facade you the best hotels and restaurants to find private chefs cook dinner for the famous VIP of the city.

The membership fees for these private pavilions are a million yuan (HK $ 1,260,000) to five million yuan per year if you pay something around five million yuan, so some private lodges to "endless banquet" during the year without additional have costs, said a friend who tried the new and special service for these individuals.

There is a popular saying among the general public on the continent when a measure taken by the government, a counter-measure, it will be soon. This is the key tacit things I learned from my friends Shanghai.