Similar to the market back home in the good ol' US of A, there is usually the factory, the middle man, the other middle man, the distributer, and then the actual store where one can purchase a product. One cool thing about China, while they may require the use of ID in many, many places (to buy a cell phone, a train ticket, a plane ticket, and stay in a hostel, etc. ), they do not require anything at all to go to the wholesale markets. Because of the one-two punch of constant humidity/heat and mosquitoes, many people have these sweet China famous inventions of mosquito door nets. The door stays open, the net stays closed, cool air passes through the room, and the wee beasties stay out (mostly). The secret is the magic magnetic strip
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