It is Friday evening and two of Yang Qian's friends are playing video games at a nearby arcade. But the 22- year-old, a recent computer sciences graduate who just started working at a local software company, is at his weekly English class.
“This is very important, it is something I have to do,” says Mr Yang in English that already seems pretty good. “If I want to have the sort of job that I am looking for, I need to be better at speaking English.”
China is full of booming consumer markets, from car sales growing at 50 per cent a year to top-end apartments that developers sell within days of putting them on the market. But one of the most interesting is urban China's craze for the English language.
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