No they arent. A tiny segment of elite Chinese (its a lot of people when the numbers are taken from western engineers, but its tiny when compared with the number of Chinese people there are) are getting good jobs, imported from the West. The vast majority work in terrible conditions for pennies, exploited, making huge profits for Western Corporations.
I bet working for a foreign shoe maker in China is better than doing some of the make work jobs they had (and perhaps still do) like mowing grass. By hand. As in, plucking each little blade with your fingers.

Free trade can only help the third world, because it gives them more opportunites.

Crazed Rabbit