Poverty in China: starving man who staged robbery to get regular prison meals now lives a totally different life | South China Morning Post

In 2008, 69-year-old Fu Daxin from rural Hunan province in central China was so poor he decided to find himself a better place for retirement - prison. Wielding a peeling knife at a railway station in Beijing in an attempt to stage a robbery, Fu got himself put behind bars and had regular meals for almost two years. Now, 13 years after his attempt made national headlines, Fu said he was living a life he could not imagine before. "I am free and can buy whatever I feel like. I am content with my life now," Fu told China Youth…