{"id":19235,"date":"2020-06-12T09:42:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/12\/chinas-lifeblood-street-hawkers-make-surprise-return-to-fire-up-ailing-economy"},"modified":"2020-06-12T09:42:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:42:08","slug":"chinas-lifeblood-street-hawkers-make-surprise-return-to-fire-up-ailing-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19235","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;China&#8217;s lifeblood&#8217;: street hawkers make surprise return to fire up ailing economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once discouraged in favour of modern, smarter cities, vendors have been praised by Beijing in a bid to keep low-skilled in work after coronavirus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jun\/12\/coronavirus-live-news-markets-fall-over-fears-of-long-us-recovery-as-brazil-cases-top-800000\">Coronavirus latest updates<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/11\/global-report-india-reports-surge-in-covid-19-cases-as-lockdown-eased\">India cases surge as lockdown eases<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a quiet street corner in a neighbourhood in Beijing known for families and retirees, Xue Min, 22 a recent graduate, swats her legs, fighting off mosquitoes, as she encourages passersby to browse the earrings and scrunchies she has laid out on a cloth, surrounded by fairy lights. \u201cHave a look,\u201d she says brightly to a couple that pause briefly before moving on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just before 10pm, two men arrive with a food cart &#8211; a gas stove, wok, and counter, attached to a motorbike and begin to prep their menu of fried rice and noodles. Xue and her neighbour, a woman selling books, toothbrushes and trinkets from abroad, murmur and watch with expectation. Business might pick up a little now.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/12\/chinas-lifeblood-street-hawkers-make-surprise-return-to-fire-up-ailing-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once discouraged in favour of modern, smarter cities, vendors have been praised by Beijing in a bid to keep low-skilled in work after coronavirusCoronavirus latest updatesIndia cases surge as lockdown easesOn a quiet street corner in a neighbourhood in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,556,1069],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-chinese-economy","category-coronavirus-outbreak"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19251,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19235\/revisions\/19251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}