Miscalculation, could not find suitable breakfast. Watched staff in a neighbouring hotel doing pre-work warm-ups, saw a nice butcher’s stall. Noted in South China Morning Post an interesting article; it seems that a factory work (living in a strange city, without resident rights or access to free medical treatment) earns about U.S. $4,000 per year; some people are now moving back to the villages and starting e-commerce. One couple, 25km north of Xi’an, started selling vegetables that way, earned U.S. $78,000 last year between the pair of them, built a 200 sq. metre factory and are expanding now to 2,000 sq. metre. A farmer supplements his living elsewhere by supplying an e-commerce business, on a good day it is worth up to U.S. $25 but even on a bad day makes U.S. $3.00 – “not bad
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