{"id":11894,"date":"2013-07-04T00:25:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T16:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=11894"},"modified":"2014-03-17T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T03:13:54","slug":"make-a-living-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/china-travel\/chinese-culture\/make-a-living-in-china","title":{"rendered":"Make a living in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For many ordinary Chinese, to make a living is still not easy, based on\u00a0several factors such as\u00a0tough job\u00a0markets, large population, rising\u00a0cost of living, changing life style, the internet, influx of migrant workers and the list\u00a0goes on…\u00a0If you make a China tour<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, you will discern\u00a0plentiful outdated modes of earning a living in China,\u00a0and the toil and hardship behind all the common people at grass roots. Some people cannot keep pace with the fast changing internet age and stick to the areas where they are familiar and feel comfortable; others favor the traditional way of doing things. <\/span><\/div>\n
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While so-called beauty salons are getting more and more popular, the traditional haircut still has its market demand – retired people, pensioners, low income\u00a0families\u00a0who still need the basic simple haircut. Nearly half the barbers are women. Now the female barber gives haircut and grooming.<\/span><\/div>\n
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the female barber gives haircut and grooming.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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The site of the travelling salesperson bring us to the old days, to our childhood years. The traveling salesperon is passing through the strees in traditional chinese clothes.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The site of the travelling salesperson bring us to the old days<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Taking a richshaww and wind through the lanes and streets<\/span><\/div>\n
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Taking a richshaww and wind through the lanes and streets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Migrant Workers is happily working<\/span><\/div>\n
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Migrant Workers is happily working<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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A stonemason is working on his products <\/span><\/div>\n
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A stonemason is working on his products<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Carrying the loads of mulberry for sale<\/span><\/div>\n
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Carrying the load of mulberry for sale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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A job of Drawing customers<\/span><\/div>\n
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A job of Drawing customers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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A tongman<\/span><\/div>\n
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A tongman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Wooden Buckets Making<\/span><\/div>\n
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Wooden Buckets Making<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Sewing<\/span><\/div>\n
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Sewing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Carving chops<\/span><\/div>\n
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Carving chops<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Making keys<\/span><\/div>\n
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Making keys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Bamboo baskets making<\/span><\/div>\n
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Bamboo baskets making<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  For many ordinary Chinese, to make a living is still not easy, based on\u00a0several factors such as\u00a0tough job\u00a0markets, large population, rising\u00a0cost of living, changing life style, the internet, influx of migrant workers and the list\u00a0goes on…\u00a0If you make a China tour, you will discern\u00a0plentiful outdated modes of earning a living in China,\u00a0and the toil…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china-travel","category-chinese-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11894"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14142,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions\/14142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}