In pictures: China's Wealth Gap

"Life has changed so much here since the mid 1980s, in terms of economy, lifestyle and transportation. We used to live in sun-dried mud huts but now I live in a brick house. My family has heating, and some families even have tractors.

Some of us even live better than those city dwellers who are unemployed - but of course we cannot live as well as city husbands and wives who both have their own jobs."