Hong Kong has 160 McDonald's and Taiwan has 300. Now more and more Chinese strive to wear the latest fashions. The Mao suite is out of style. Nanjing now has over one dozen Internet cafes providing people the opportunity to surf the Web. These Internet or cyber cafes are owned and operated by government telecommunications companies, private companies, and universities.
China now ranks as the second largest cell phone market after the United States.
China Today claims that 40 million Chinese use cell phones. Each year China installs enough phone lines to replace networks the size of Pacific Bell. There still is a three-year waiting list to get a telephone installed in Beijing. Most Chinese telephone books in the major cities are about one inch thick. In 1980 there were no lawyers in China.