Chinese middle class driving US economy

As the middle class in China grows, the middle class will change China's buying patterns. China will begin to need things made in other countries. It will be inefficient for China to produce everything it needs inside its own borders. It will begin to copy the pattern of the US and Japan. Find and make products where it is most efficient to make them.

Lifestyles abroad create US jobs
"New Lifestyles Abroad Save U.S. Mill" WSJ, 13 Aug 2012, Cameron McWhirter

Three years ago International Paper closed a mill in Franklin VA that employed 1,100 people producing white office paper. The mill is now reopening to produce fluff pulp. Fluff pulp is an absorbent material used in diapers, tampons and many other products. Fluff pulp is made from loblolly pine, a fast growing tree in the Southern US.