Private Businesses in China

31, Basket Seller

This young man sells hand-made baskets off the end of his bicycle wheeling around town stopping wherever he find a sale. Many very ingenious Chinese survived by going into business with a very small overhead. He buys the baskets and then resells them The prices are very low. Most baskets sell for less than a dollar. Of course, as a foreigner you have to cut his price by a large amount.