The rapid growth of the Chinese economy is of great concern. For a majority Chinese people, dramatic lifestyle changes have mirrored the direction the economy is developing. In Beijing, there're huge new building sites for luxury housing complexes - places with names like Grand Hills, Riviera, or, leaving no doubt about the analogy, Yosemite Park.
China's new rich can buy a fully packaged American lifestyle, five bedrooms, a real log fire, and an extra large garage for the 4X4, and there are no shortage of takers. However an increasing number of China's nouveau riche are from a class that 10 years ago hardly existed in China: private entrepreneurs.
The 'revolution' is based on a limitless supply of manpower, and the entrepreneurial elite are wasting no time in making the most of the opportunity to produce at full capacity. Not only in the big cities, but all across Southern China, modern factories are springing up. One even exists with a huge billboard showing Pierce Brosnan, better known as 007, purportedly wearing one of the company's suits.