Passage 1
A clearly confident 【China has rolled up a large section of its bamboo curtain】, declared itself "open to the outside world" and hung signs on nearly all its cities inviting foreign investors to come and do serious business.
For forei

Passage 1
A clearly confident 【China has rolled up a large section of its bamboo curtain】, declared itself "open to the outside world" and hung signs on nearly all its cities inviting foreign investors to come and do serious business.
For foreign investors, the prospect of 【having access to】 a market of 1. 3 billion consumers no longer seems like a pipedream. The Chinese-in particular the rural population——are getting richer and now want visible improvements to their standard of living: they aspire to own colour TV sets, refrigerators, trucks, washing machines and 【better】 radios, bicycles and clothing. Even local factories are taking note of the vast potential 【sales】 in their own domestic market.
37.What is implied by using the word "better"? Does it refer merely to the quality of goods here or something more?

Better "implies that"they already had things like radios bicycles and clothing: but expected to have better ones".