Like many of China's impoverished elderly, she is a former farmer, too old to benefit from the boomingeconomy that has swept the younger generation into China's factories, and passed over by a benefit system that is skewed in favor of urbanites.
The growth in container traffic in the 1990s powered America's boomingeconomy as retailers such as Wal-Mart bought goods from China and manufacturers such as Dell sourced parts from Asia for assembly in America.