It is only along the coast, home to roughly one in three Chinese citizens, that most people can be said to have really joined the twenty-first century. Much of rural China is still miserable, with 150 million people effectively unemployed and health and education standards often befitting an earlier century.
并非是中国人人平等。只有在居住者三分之一人口的中国沿海地区，大多数人才称得上加入了二十一世纪。中国农村大多还很悲惨，1亿5千万人口实际上失业，医疗和教育标准还是上个世纪的水平。