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STORY: TARA BROWN: Around the world, the truly famous need only go by one name. But, move over Madonna, Cher and Kylie... www.6park.com
NAMU: My champagne, my cigarette. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: ..China has Namu. She's a huge star here - a TV celebrity, and best-selling author. Do you work hard at being China's sexiest woman? www.6park.com
NAMU: I don't have to work hard. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: It just comes naturally? www.6park.com
NAMU: It just comes naturally. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: But what's really extraordinary about Namu is that she and her flamboyant excesses can flourish in today's China. Is it fair to say you represent the new China, your face is the new China? www.6park.com
NAMU: I hope so, I think so, you know. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: And what a face it is. She's a flash of fluorescent colour in grey Beijing. Namu embraces Western fashion and values as enthusiastically as she clutches the hand of a new-found friend. It's 'Sex and the City' in the Orient. Are your feet OK in these shoes? www.6park.com
NAMU: I said I'm going to die with high heeled shoes. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: You're going to die with high heels? www.6park.com
NAMU: High heeled shoes, yeah. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: You really are 'Sex and the City'. Namu is far from alone. China's 1.3 billion people have increasingly Western tastes. And with almost a million millionaires, the world's most populated nation may soon be the greatest consumer of the world's most famous brands. www.6park.com
NAMU: People like a new things. Things from the Western country. Everything is new. They don't say it's beautiful or not they say "Oh, I bought this. Do you know how much it cost?" www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: That is important to the Chinese, is it? www.6park.com
NAMU: Yeah. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: To appear wealthy, to be wealthy? www.6park.com
NAMU: Ah, these days yeah. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: It's about the brand names? www.6park.com
NAMU: Yeah. It's in the air. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: In the air? It's a long way from the China we know. A secretive authoritarian regime condemned by the world for the brutality that unfolded here in Tiananmen Square in 1989. www.6park.com
NEWS BROADCAST: The unarmed students had no hope, many fell wounded or dead. Bicycles crashing around them as they tried to escape the hail of bullets. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: But a booming economy has catapulted China into the 21st Century and it's not just the super-rich reaping the benefits. A new middle class has emerged. Hundreds of millions of people who just a few years ago were poverty-stricken. www.6park.com
LI CUNXIN: China has come a long way in a short span of time but it is still our generation really. So, I'm still a living testament of that incredibly harsh and unbelievable, unimaginable you know, sort of hard life. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: Li Cunxin and his family are proof of China's new-found prosperity and the dramatic rise in living standards for so many. www.6park.com
LI CUNXIN: So you squeeze it with this thumb. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: OK. www.6park.com
LI CUNXIN: That's it, that's it. Now, just make it a little bit rounder. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: These days, life is comfortable and secure, with plenty of food to go around. Even enough for clumsy guests. www.6park.com
LI CUNXIN: There you go, yeah that's not bad. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: That's pathetic, come on. It's hard to imagine now, but not so long ago this family was struggling to survive through China's cultural revolution. A desperate time, when 30 million people starved to death. The rural village where Li grew up with his parents and six brothers has been demolished, but others like it still exist. So, how similar is this to your place where you grew up? www.6park.com
LI CUNXIN: Almost exactly the same. The same layout and this basically, what you see, this is the sewer system. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: Li describes his extraordinary upbringing in his best-selling autobiography, 'Mao's Last Dancer'. Cramped conditions, near starvation, and winter temperatures of minus 20 degrees. So, you were here Li, with your brothers sleeping? www.6park.com
LI CUNXIN: We... during the... basically we'll be, you know, one of my brother will be there and I will be, probably, inside. My parents will be outside so we won't roll off the bed and it will be, basically, head to toe. So sometimes on this bed we can have four or five people. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: Hundreds of millions still live in poverty like this today. But as a young boy, Li made his escape through ballet. He became one of China's best dancers and at 18, on a tour of the United States, decided to stay. His defection bought him freedom but cost him access to his family. Do you feel much guilt for the lifestyle you lead? www.6park.com
LI CUNXIN: Not any more. But for a while I did. I even, every time, every time I ate a piece of banana or meat I just, I just wished my mother could have that. So, that was really, for years I felt terrible for having a better life than my parents and my brothers. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: The new China has forgiven this defector. Li, who now lives in Melbourne, can visit his family when he wants. A family that has prospered in these good times. Two years ago, his parents moved into this modern apartment block. Extreme poverty has been replaced by middle-class comfort and entrepreneurial flair. www.6park.com
LI CUNXIN: He said, "I'm his best brother." www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: You can tell me later what you really think, www.6park.com
LI CUNXIN: Yeah, but we actually fought a lot. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: Nowadays, Communist China is full of capitalist opportunity. Li's brother, Cunfar, is China's up and coming 'Lindsay Fox' going from driving trucks to owning a trucking company. And does he feel because some of his trucks are to help build roads and with the construction of China, does he feel like he's building China? www.6park.com
LI CUNXIN: Mmm, he said he feels very good about it. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: Just down the road, another brother, Cunmao, has opened China's first home renovating super-store. www.6park.com
LI CUNXIN: It's quite impressive, isn't it? www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: Yeah, it is. I might have to come shopping. www.6park.com
LI CUNXIN: Maybe something for your place in Australia? We can ship it there. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: The savvy Cunmao has timed his one-stop shopping mall with a property and renovating boom and his business is now worth $15 million dollars. And obviously the Chinese like to renovate their homes, like Australia? www.6park.com
LI CUNXIN: They love their homes. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: They love their homes? www.6park.com
LI CUNXIN: They love their homes. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: If there was ever a symbol of China's success, it's here. Welcome to the grandly named Beijing Riviera A wealthy gated community on the outskirts of the city. These sorts of developments are popping up everywhere to meet the demands of China's emerging middle class. They desperately want to live the suburban dream - a garden, a couple of cars in the garage and a big house. They want and they're getting all the trappings of the West. www.6park.com
JOHN PAULINE: I mean sometimes you need to do a sort of double-take on some of these suburbs. They literally are just row after row of French Provincial Housing or English Tudor. And a lot of Chinese are buying these places in droves and it's forcing the city to expand at a great pace. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: So, like the rest of the world, this new middle class is seeking space? Fresh air? www.6park.com
JOHN PAULINE: Yep, yep and a sense of self importance and a sense of pride in what they have achieved. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: In the three years Australian architect John Pauline has been in China, he has seen a constantly changing skyline. He and his firm PTW are responsible for some of it. Creating the winning design for the Athletes Village and Beijing's Olympic Swimming Centre - a spectacular splash of colour known as 'The Cube'. There has been a lot of discussion, China really wanted to show off. They wanted to have the most modern, the most cutting edge. www.6park.com
JOHN PAULINE: Yeah, it's true. And, to be honest, I actually have a lot of admiration for the Government and people who made decisions here in Beijing because they made some bold choices. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: China might be making its mark through this explosion in building but with the Olympics just a month away it is losing its battle with pollution. The environment has become the victim of an economy growing at 10% a year and a society that just wants more and more. Believe it or not it's a bright sunny day here in Beijing. You just can't see it for the smog. Adding to the pollution - every day there are 1,000 new cars hitting the traffic jams of this already congested capital. Just to breathe in this city is the equivalent of smoking 70 cigarettes a day. www.6park.com
JOHN PAULINE: Every now and again you do get a beautiful blue-sky day but they're a little bit rare so I'm used to seeing Beijing in this context. But it is a shame. I mean, this Olympic site really shines in good weather but you just don't see it a lot. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: Because you can taste it, can't you? www.6park.com
JOHN PAULINE: Yeah, it is in the air. www.6park.com
SHARON HOM: You're talking about hundreds of millions who are dying from environmental-related diseases - polluted air, polluted water, a polluted everything. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: Sharon Hom is a human rights activist, who the Chinese Government won't tolerate on the mainland. Hong Kong is as close as she's allowed. www.6park.com
SHARON HOM: It's not just blocking. It's that even if you get the access it's about surveillance. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: Sharon is not upbeat about the 'New China' and says the big boom has created the biggest gap on the planet between rich and poor. www.6park.com
SHARON HOM: What it means is that you've got 300 million moved out of poverty but 700 million without any access to health care. 700 million drinking contaminated water. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: So, scratch the surface and there isn't really a new China? www.6park.com
SHARON HOM: No. If the Chinese authorities and the Chinese people are not able to address from the bottom up and the top down this poverty, uneven development, the environment and human rights issues, we are going to see a very dangerous future and it is going to impact the world. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: These days, China appears to be a happy, benign place. But Sharon warns with little freedom of information and continued human rights abuses, it can't last. So, without democracy, the China boom will go bust? www.6park.com
SHARON HOM: Without democracy, which you need to have the accountability and the transparency yeah, the economic boom is going to go bust. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: Boom or bust, we have a vested interest in China's future. So far, their prosperity has fuelled our resources boom and helped shield the Australian economy from the worst of the world credit crisis. While we benefit during the good times, how will we suffer if the boom does turn to bust? www.6park.com
LI CUNXIN: Oh, I think we're going to suffer in a very severe fashion. You know, everything's going to really result in a lot more lost jobs and really the industry's going through... will go through a painful down-sizing period of time. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: Just don't tell Namu. This influential celebrity is too busy enjoying China's current success to make waves. She's more into Dior than Democracy. If you were to write a book that criticised the Government, what would the reaction be? www.6park.com
NAMU: I'm not going to write it. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: Why not? www.6park.com
NAMU: Ah, because I'm not interested in those things. I'm interested in fashions, lifestyles. Tell my girlfriend how to wear her clothes. Tell my reader, you know, good place to eat, good place to buy. www.6park.com
TARA BROWN: So you really are Beijing's 'Carrie Bradshaw?' www.6park.com
NAMU: I think so. www.6park.com