On the other hand, China in many ways is a bustling nation right now with super highways, thousands of taxis, bicycles, and motorbikes along the city streets, and Buicks, Volkswagens, Opels, Citroens, Hondas, Mercedes are seen everywhere. There is a lot of construction and subways in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and my city Nanjing is scheduled to have one by 2005. China makes excellent shoes, leather coats, silk scarves, dresses and shirts. In last year s Olympic games, she was the third in the number of medals won behind USA and Russia. India, by contrast, has almost as many people but was way down the list near the bottom.
Apartments tend to be crowded and made exclusively of poured concrete, and are without elevators.
That means cold walls and floors for most and the furniture is basic by western standards. Still WTO is coming and if China makes as much progress in the next decade as in the last two, she will be in the top ten industrial nations of the world by then.