Booming fruit trade shows China-Asean cooperation

By Xinhua News Agency

Sep 21, 2022 12:14 am

NANNING, China: For Chen Jiqing, a fruit trader in the city of Dongxing, in China's southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, his first memory of Southeast Asian fruits were the rambutan, mango and coconut brought by foreign traders near the border trade market when he was a child.

'There were only a few varieties and quantities of fruits from [Southeast Asian] countries at that time. Most of these fruits had to be sold out that day or they wouldn't be fresh,' Chen said.

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