Photos: A high-tech future dawns in China

For all the high-tech glitz and glamour of Beijing's growing sophisticates, there is the day-to-day reality for the majority of the city's residents. There are about 1.3 billion people in China. About 100 million of those are at the top of the economic ladder, with an additional 400 million or so designated as the "urban mass market," Intel's Price said. Intel believes all of these people are potential PC customers, but they live in very different worlds.