i'm pleased to have lionel barber back at this table. welcome. >> good to be here charlie. >> charlie: i get a note that's addressed to mara, whoever mara is. and it was your chinese travels. i thought this is a story. lionel barber through china. tell me about it. >> i thought your middle name was mara. she's a friend that lives in brussels. the i send a little note when i'm on travels to friends just to give impressions. i just wanted to sort of sum up some impressions after three days in china. and i think one of them was very much this. we think about china in terms of prosperous coast, big problems in the interior, migrating labor, looking for jobs. i think one of the stories in china today is that inland is beginning the transformation of the china interior. >> charlie: to the middle class. >> not to the middle class but just moving off $10 a day or $10 a month. >> charlie: it's getting better. >> yes it's getting better. but this is now a instrumental state policy. second i think the fact that the chinese government is now reconci