Nah , typical China , has never been different . Maybe a few hundred years ago . <| sep |> if they restrict these I should get a 50 k or higher raise <| sep |> Oh plenty . 1 . One of my best friends , his dad is the head of electricity in their third tier city in Shandong . Dad has loads of connections around ShandongNorthern China and my friend had an English tutor since he was around 2 . We ' ve traveled the world together met up in US , UK and traveled throughout China together and it ' s been fun . I guess maybe his family might be on the cusp of Fuerdai status , his dad flaunts the law a bit by having three cars okayish cars and a driver but the family isn ' t investing millions in Vancouver and my friend doesn ' t have a ferrari or really any car or flashy jewelry for that matter . 2 . My first girlfriend . I ' ve gone over her a bit in the past several years so I ' ll make this short . Her parents are upper middle class but her mom ' s sister is a self made multimillionaire . The aunt learned carpentry skills during the cultural revolution and afterwards set up a furniture store which turned into two then three and now twenty different stores around Fujian . Her two kids are fully grown but I ' ve met them both and they seem okay . One got an investment visa to Australia and his family is pretty much Aussie and the other one is an international investor or something who lives in Shanghai with his hot wife and two adorable kids . Not sure how to measure fuerdai status , the only extravagant thing I ' ve noticed is that one of the uncles used the money to build his house an eight story tower house in the countryside . 3 . Other gal I dated for nine months . Her dad was an investoreconomist or something somehow ties into an SOE and has traveled half the world for his company . My ex and her brother grew up in a large penthouse with trips around the world twice a year and were tutored in English from an early age also the dad owns a few condos in different cities . The downside though is that her mom is a psycho bipolar schizophrenic monster and fell for some ChristianFalun Gong cult that told her to give them aaaaaaalll the family ' s money . She did that or gave at least most of it and the dad had to cancel some trip that nearly cost him his job and chances at advancement to come home and fix things up . Because of the lack of money they temporarily moved to the mountains to live with grandpa . The dad worked his ass off and got the family a nice above average apartment in the city center but the home life never was the same . The mom was permanently off her rocker and the two of them would get in fights that would leave the dad in tears muttering about how fucked his life is and has taken it out on his kids because they remind them of her . Anyways both kids turned out alright , the older brother went to a top five school in China , studied abroad for grad school and is now making weapons for the state . His sister just graduated from her undergrad and is currently studying in Europe . I know a few more but those are the folks I know the best . I ' m not sure if they really truly were fuerdai but their parentsrelatives had influence and wealth of some sort and it has been interesting over the years getting to know these people .