Transcript: New Worker Class

NARRATOR: Well-paid managers of foreign owned companies represent a new class of worker. Dwanzhi She earns sixty thousand dollars a year. So he's not a blue-collar worker and he's not a white-collar worker...

DWANZHI SHE: In China, I'm being considered a gold collar worker. Which is, which means that people are who earn um much more than ah, even the white collar worker. We're on our way to where my new apartment's gonna be at.

DWANZHI SHE: So this, this is the building for my new apartment. It's supposed to be one of the, the new generation housing projects with a lot of modern amenities like broadband access, like remote security systems. This is the living room, this section here. You can see it's very spacious. It's quite different from older styles of housing projects. One of the most attractive elements of this new project to us is that we will be able to watch international satellite TV programs, like CNN, HBO. But the Chinese law does not permit Chinese housing projects to have this kind of ah, satellite access. So this is like, by special arrangement. Somehow they negotiated a deal with the municipal government so that they give them a license to operate this kind of international TV.

This is actually the main bedroom -- new designs, new concepts. A change in taste and also a change in affordability of people.

DWANZHI SHE: As Beijing gets down to the 2008 Olympics and as China just join WTO, there will be more people um who will be able to make it like me.