zhang reveals another secret. his company owns the surrounding land, almost as far as the eye can see. he plans to build a massive production plant. it will be shaped like a shoe. zhang: i'm very excited. i must achieve this and i will achieve it. it's a very valuable and meaningful project. reporter: and dozens of chinese companies are doing the same -- moving production to the new cheap labor nations in southeast asia and africa. narrator: there's an urgent need for jobs like these that have left china and come to africa. we asked the director of the berlin institute for population and development, reiner klingholz, for his take on the issue. the institute's latest study looks at "jobs for africa." he says china is easy to work with. >> china's approach to development is very successful, when they get involved and aren't just interested in natural resources. that's because it wasn't so long ago that china itself was a developing country. now it's an emerging economy. so, the chinese know how development works. t

zhang bam a promoter of traditional crafts. she is grateful for his business experience which have given her useful skills. in late january 2016, shanghai was gripped by a cold wave. the morning after the cold first struck, we heard from sun that his strawberries were one of his 12 greenhouses was wrecked by the strong winds, leaving the strawberries exposed to the freezing cold rain. the mature strawberries were completely exposed to the elements. sun estimates the dang to the greenhouse and crops to be at least $2,000. the strawberries soon put so much hard work into are now worthless. si silently, he plucks them and throws them fortunately, the damage from the cold wave wasn't as severe as he initially thought. next year, he plans to double his strawberry cultivation, in order to secure sales routes so consumers can finally enjoy his produce. some of china's university graduates are applying their academic abilities to venture into unchartered waters. they could pave the way for a new generation of entrepreneurs who are dete

her mother, zhang yin, has health concerns, but that's not her only reason. >> we want to give our daughter the best we possibly can. if we have another baby, we'll have to lower our sights for both of them. and we don't want to do that. >> on the one hand, it would affect my wife's work. and on the other, there are our parents, especially our fathers. they're getting older and they need us. but with a second child, we'd need them to help us. >> yichen's and chenrui's parents are also feeling the financial pressure, but they've never regretted having a second child. they've always wanted their children not to grow up alone. they believe the local authorities only wanted the money anyway. now they're demanding it back in court and say the authorities shouldn't have treated them the way they did. and they want to set an example. >> even if we lose in court, i still believe that this is a way for us citizens to defend our rights. that's why i decided to sue the authorities. >> xu li and her husband say family planning is a private matter. and they want their children to have the freedom to mak