从许多角度讲，服务业是消费社会的基础设施 — — 在中国的例子中，服务业提供了中国新兴中产阶级需求日益旺盛的基本公用设施、通讯、零售、医疗和金融。
Services are in many respects the infrastructure of a consumer society – in China’s case, providing the basic utilities, communications, retail outlets, health care, and finance that its emerging middle class is increasingly demanding.