Small trades in big China. In China's 1.3 billion population, many are street merchants. They practice every trade imaginable. Some are barbers and some are butchers. Here are a few of these people.

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A laborer walks down a busy Zhangjiajie street with his biandan (two baskets and bamboo pole) slung casually over his shoulder and a cigarette dangling effortlessly from the corner of his mouth.

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A gracious man dressed in an old army coat and hat at a McDonald's in a tourist area of the city of Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province. Each day he spends his time offering to take people's trays away for a little bit of change.

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A butcher at a small improvised market in Hunan Province's Zhangjiajie, one of China's many cities with a population of over 1 million that is little-known outside of the country.

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Small trades in big China. In China's 1.3 billion population, many are street merchants. They practice every trade imaginable. Some are barbers and some are butchers. Here are a few of these people.

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