China Boom CMS

<p>Since I watched Chinese leaders close by, I saw Mao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. In 1971, when I came to New York, I went to a supermarket. I was overwhelmed. It was such an affluent society. At the time, China was living under very strict rationing. If you bought anything, you needed a coupon. Rice, cooking oil, meats, textiles, this was a huge difference, a huge gap. I told myself that never in my life time would I see Chinese supermarkets that were as good as America&rsquo;s. More than 30 years later, I realized I was wrong. At that time, I was pretty convinced that Chinese supermarkets would never, in my lifetime, look like American supermarkets. I thought that because we have a very large population, the American population is relatively much smaller and, also, America started industrialization much earlier and China was catching up. Today, when you are in Chinese supermarket, you do not feel much difference.</p>