On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:41:17 GMT, "Larry J."
> wrote:

>> China has overtaken the US in sales of televisions and mobile
>> phones. In the next few years, it will become the biggest market
>> for computers. And a double digit rise in urban incomes has
>> drawn Cartier, Prada and Armani to expand here faster than
>> anywhere else in the world.
>
>That's certainly what I saw in Shanghai last July.
>
>But like the article says, this is happening in the urban areas,
>particularly that of Shanghai and along the southeast corridor and
>parts of Bejing. China has four or five times the population of
>the USA. The rural Chinese, which are many hundreds of millions,
>haven't enjoyed much of this.

See rural American trailer parks for a similar situation...