the province of guangdong is on china's southern coast.his area has sustained extraordinary growth in recendecas, thriving as a base of manufacture for a global economy. advancements in communication and transportation facilitate globalization. containerized shipping is a cost-effective means of transporting a variety of goods. guangdong's relative location to hong kong's ports and financial infrastructure is key to determining its position at the epicenter of chinese economic development. through guangdong, we see the forces of globalization at work in the pearl river delta and beyond. many observers argue the costs and benefits, but few dispute that globalization is the most profound reorganization of the world since the industrial revolution. the driving force of globalization is economic, and at the core of the global economy is the global production system. du neng ji makes nike shoes-- one of tens of thousands of nike employees scattered across the world. du neng ji and his fellow workers are a small part of the chinese link in the c

look at what had happened to that village in guangdong province and 50,000 people. when they were united and they were able to win the fight, at least temporarily, they were allowed to have their first freely and democratically election and elect their own leaders in that 50,000 people village. it's a small step, it's a baby step, but it shows people's power. i think thousands of -- or hundreds of thousands of chinese petitioners, in spite of the black deals and imprisonment, arbitrary arrests and torture, they are still organized and they went to the chinese leadership compound in shanghai and beijing and hundreds of house church members like the beijing house church, in the past, almost ten months, since april of last year, every sunday, every sunday in the capital city of beijing, their arrest from 20 to over 100 member of this church were arrested for simply going outdoors for worship. and all the leaders including the senior pastor and all their five elders had been under house arrest without any freedom of movement. but the members are still going there every

. >> guangdong province. he had overseen this village election. i don't know if you noticed that in the small village wukon where they were trying to... first went against the government because their land has been taken away. they first started with the social unrest and the government could have harshly cracked down. they didn't. instead they went in, managed by wan young to have a village election. so that was very much seen as a positive management in a smaller very grass root level a democracy. and even when jaw bow, now we're talking about democracy can happen and should happen at a village level and county level. so it seems like the political reform is on the way. >> rose: do you agree with that? >> i think there are. >> rose: i really do. but the question will be as it gets more difficult, as the economic environment get mrs. difficult, as leaders get pressed, as they experience their own moments again as they will at some point, how do they respond? it's not when things are going well, but when things are going badly you wonder where peo

it sees the examples of shanghai and the utheastern province of guangdong, where money from taiwan, has well as western multinationals, has developed a booming economy. the same is hoped for china's northeast. a number of foreign enterprises are moving into the economic and technical zone that the national government has declared here. this machinery manufacturing plant has be fanced by a chinese enterprise and a large japanese automaker. it will manufacture spinning mhines. here a japanese manufacturer andand a singapore companyaker. have combined in this precision equipment plant to manufacture machinery that is used in making floppy disks. but despite these promising beginnings, the attraction of foreign investment in liaoning province hasagged. part of the problem is the natu of ry there. pannell: the problem is, if you've got iron and steel works, machine tool works, refineries, coal gasification plants-- sort of the dinosaurs of the industrial structure-- the real action is more in the light industrial side, the consumer goods and those kinds of things. if you can produce sporti