EDIT: sorry, I've misread the title, looking at the actual report
https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab...
it seems that US still has (well, had in 2019) way more millionaires - 18 million. It's only in top 10% wealthiest people that China overtook US
Still, 4 million people eating pangolins would provide enough opportunities for interesting zoonotic jumps
0.003% of Chinese citizens being millionaires doesn’t discredit my comment.
If only a subset of them were the ones buying the millions of trafficked Pangolins and civets and whatever else carries CoV, then that’d be great progress as a starting point.
Then for the wealthy you can make it a big social stigma to purchase them, especially after it brought the worlds economy to a halt... instead of doing the complete opposite where authorities are promoting it. Chinese authorities are well versed in influencing social stigmas and public shaming, which is a big deal in a country where ‘saving face’ often outranks reality.
You're thinking China from 50 years ago. There are at least 4.4 million millionaires in China! More than in the US
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/21/china-overt...
EDIT: sorry, I've misread the title, looking at the actual report https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab... it seems that US still has (well, had in 2019) way more millionaires - 18 million. It's only in top 10% wealthiest people that China overtook US
Still, 4 million people eating pangolins would provide enough opportunities for interesting zoonotic jumps