Gift Recycling: China’s Not-So-Underground Economy – China Environment

www.lostlaowai.com — As China celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival this past week, countless gifts were exchanged by friends, families, and co-workers in homes and offices all across the country. In the days following the festival, many gifts changed hands once again, this time behind store counters and in narrow back all

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