The pavement in front of McDonald's was crowded with bicycles. Next door at the French joint-venture store, shoppers carried bags to the car park past jobless residents who poked through the store's trash, looking for discarded food. Shoppers drove VW Passats and Santanas, and Audi A6s. As Shenyang's street scenes demonstrate, Chinese consumers have a taste for foreign goods. If a Chinese manufacturer can make a good car, that's the way they will judge it.
People are no longer ashamed to buy a Chinese product.