Wang Huai Ming’s stall on the main street of Jixian County is the opened-out bed of a small, dropside truck laden with melons and sweet potatoes. Behind him is a mound of sweetcorn, which he also grows on the patch of land he leases a few kilometres away. He sells his produce here twice a week.
“I know all the vendors around here; we all come from three different counties, within a 20km radius. We’re all very friendly to each other, like a small community,” he says.
Wang was born and raised here, a rural area between Beijing and Tianjin and close to the Great Wall.
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