{"id":147868,"date":"2020-06-12T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/12\/chinas-lifeblood-street-hawkers-make-surprise-return-to-fire-up-ailing-economy\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T02:42:08","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:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=147868","title":{"rendered":"&#039;China&#039;s lifeblood&#039;: 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 coronavirusCoronavirus latest updatesIndia cases surge as lockdown easesOn 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;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. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/12\/chinas-lifeblood-street-hawkers-make-surprise-return-to-fire-up-ailing-economy\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;China&#039;s lifeblood&#039;: street hawkers make surprise return to fire up ailing economy<\/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 Beijing known for families and retirees, Xue Min, 22 a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}