Nightly Business Report (PBS) - 2005-09-05
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[0:00] Thank you.
[0:04] [music]
[0:04] >> Good evening everyone. I'm Darren Gersh
[0:07] and I'm standing at one of history's
[0:09] biggest building projects, the Great
[0:11] Wall of China. Thousands of miles long,
[0:14] this ancient wall was an epic feat of
[0:16] engineering. But what's going on in
[0:18] China right now dwarfs even this in size
[0:21] and scope. China is building and
[0:24] changing more now than in its entire
[0:26] 5,000 years of history. So, we'd like to
[0:29] introduce you to some of the people who
[0:31] are making that change happen. They come
[0:33] from very different walks of life. They
[0:35] live in very different parts of the
[0:36] country and they face very different
[0:38] challenges, but all of them are part of
[0:41] China's century of change.
[0:54] Look inside any of the apartments in the
[0:57] many new highrises crowding the Beijing
[0:59] skyline and you'll find a couple much
[1:01] like Jackie Chen and Alan Lee.
[1:08] >> They're members of China's new middle
[1:10] class, but the pressure they feel to
[1:12] keep up would be familiar in Boise or
[1:14] Boston.
[1:15] >> Maybe
[1:17] [laughter]
[1:18] like to yeah I mean to have a bigger
[1:20] house to have nice cars [snorts]
[1:23] >> and uh you know to have more free time
[1:28] to just to maybe for ourselves to to do
[1:32] traveling and
[1:33] >> Jackie is a business consultant Alan a
[1:35] lawyer they share their two-bedroom
[1:37] apartment with Jackie's parents who've
[1:39] left behind a very different life in
[1:41] Hunan province we came from the villages
[1:44] we were peasants our children studied
[1:46] very hard all we could to provide our
[1:49] children with the best education. We
[1:51] wanted them to be successful. As
[1:53] parents, we wanted them to become
[1:54] pi