"To ge Rich is Glorious" ???

The media in Australia is full of Abbot's China Trade trip.   .  A misquote from a late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is  the spearhead that is getting a lot of mileage.  Mr Abbott led with “to get rich is indeed glorious – but to be a true friend is sublime”. 

He gets it wrong , just as most of the West and its media  does. The  original quote is not about the glory of being Rich. 

Misattributed or apocryphal[edit]

• 致富光荣 (zhìfù guāngróng: To get rich is glorious!)
• Deng is commonly quoted with this phrase in western media but there is no proof that he actually said it
• However, this phrase in Chinese is more accurately translated as "wealth is glorious," where wealth can have a very general meaning, including knowledge, personal relationships, family: anything of value. Understood this way, the quote is not as directly controversial as a ideological/political statement, and so it is not hard to believe that he really did say this.
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• http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping