In their office, doing high quality editing and other related work for as little as 4500 RMB a month,.....

I knew a Greek-American foreign teacher, ex waitress, years ago. She used to work at Shanxi University of Taiyuan. At that time I taught at a teacher-training college of a small city near Taiyuan. I was in her apartment one morning in the middle of paying her a visit when a major earthquake struck Baotou. It was about 11:30 in the morning when a potted plant hanging from the ceiling started swinging! She was cleaning the outside of her windows just then, perched precariously on the outside, when I called out to her to come in at once.
Some years later she worked for China Daily in Beijing as one of the editors. "Considerably less money than an FT gets, worked hard, boring work, but high-class accommodation," she had told me. I was rather surprised!