Even Santa's Worried About Chinese Inflation

摘要

At the China Import & Export Fair in the southern city of Guangzhou in late April, one Western buyer protested against higher prices by wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with "Too Expensive" in Chinese. That generated little sympathy from toy seller Clara Zhang. "We all laughed so hard," says Zhang, 26, sales manager for China Nanjing Happy Toy, a maker of teddy bears and stuffed ducks. "Then we said, 'Sorry, sir, you probably need to pay even more.'"