Cheng Li, The Political Mapping of China's Tobacco Industry and Anti-Smoking Campaign (PDF), in John L. Thornton China Center Monograph Series, n. 5, Brookings Institution, ottobre 2012. URL consultato l'11 novembre 2012 (archiviato dall'url originale il 24 maggio 2013).
«...the tobacco industry is one of the largest sources of tax revenue for the Chinese government. Over the past decade, the tobacco industry has consistently contributed 7-10 percent of total annual central government revenues...»