China’s street vendors can help ease unemployment, but can they fend off the city guardians?

Under the summer heat of an early June afternoon, Pan Yunxia was waiting quietly for customers to buy vegetables or socks from her roadside stalls in Beijing.It sounds like a strange mix. Pan, a sock vendor for over two decades, said the vegetables were new to her business.They were intended to be a convenience for nearby residents amid the coronavirus outbreak, she said. She took the bold, enterprising step to expand her wares beyond socks because the local government was loosening its grip on…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3087559/chinas-street-vendors-can-help-ease-unemployment-can-they-fend