Synopsis
How the world's biggest economy is going to extremes to buy into Britain's obsession with tradition. Mainland China's super-rich elite have arrived in the UK with a shopping list to snap up everything we British do best: heritage, etiquette, property, education, luxury brands.
- Programme: Britain's Billionaire Immigrants
- Channel: Channel 4
- Broadcast year: 2016
- Geography
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