Economic reform and opening up have created wide variety of new job opportunities. Many of them have never been heard of. These include clerks at foreign companies, fashion models, and free-lance artists. Taking up these jobs are mostly young people.

At present, Beijing is home to tens of thousand of Chinese, foreign and Sino-foreign companies, which between them have a work force of hundreds of thousands. Foreign companies alone have employed more than 20,000 locals. Most of them are young professionals and receive high incomes. Their presence can be found in all high-ticket consumption sites. On the Beijing streets, one could often see young people holding mobile phones and driving private cars. Most of them are rising business people.

In the past young people used to have their jobs arranged by the government. But today they have shown much interest in taking up their own business to become bosses. They run companies or open shops, exhibiting great enthusiasm. There are also some young people eager to experience life, becoming freelances or change their job frequently.

Young parents are not mince at money to enable their children to receive overall and modern education, thus giving rise to all kinds of spare time training class. They hope their children would learn to play piano, chess or sing and dance. Toys designed for intelligence development have become very popular. Education of children has become a matter of first and foremost importance in a family.

It has become a new fad for young people to learn driving, operating computers and foreign languages. They hope to master more knowledge and skills in order to cope with the rapid development of the society.

Today's Beijing is developing into a world-class city with unprecedented speed. Only by being in Beijing, can you feel the boundless vitality, the breath enormous changes in the people's solid step into a bright future.