Li Keqiang’s support for street vendors has hit a nerve in Beijing

For years, roadside stalls and mobile vendors were frowned upon as a blight on China’s urban landscapes.For the authorities, they represented chaos and backwardness. A source of poor hygiene, noise pollution, inferior products and traffic problems, unfitting fixtures in a confident China’s rise to become a wealthy and powerful nation taking pride in its technological advances and gleaming skyscrapers.The urban management officers, or Chengguan, were tasked with chasing the vendors off the…

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