From Xinhua News Agency via China.org:
Four years working as a white-collar worker in China’s largest city of Shanghai, Liu Xiaoqiang feels he’s far from being able to afford his own apartment there.
He makes 5,000 yuan (US$640) a month as an IT engineer, but that’s only half the average price for a square meter of housing in downtown Shanghai.
When Liu finished college study in 2002, he had vowed to buy an apartment in three years at most so that his parents would leave their countryside home in central Hubei Province and live with him….[Full Text]
