One investment opportunity advertised was for a "Sanjiang County Tea Leaf Trade Market". Here is the information it gave, translated into English:

Name: Sanjiang Tea Leaf Trade Market Location: Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County People's Government Ag Bureau Plan: Build a 1000 square meter tea leaf trade market as a location to conduct the tea trade. Requirements: Right now, Sanjiang has 91,000 mu (over 6,000 hectares) of tea farms, of which 75,000 mu (5,000 hectares) are "not harmful to the public" tea plantations, with 2,100 mu (340 hectares) being mechanized tea plantations. This is Guangxi's second largest tea producing county. Even as such, the county still does not have even one tea trade market. The trading is all done on the streets, affecting traffic, going against the ideals of trade, thus limiting safeguards to the industry. All local producers hope for a trade market to help reach the model of what the trade should be, allowing for easy quality and price comparison. It would need systems for the effective use of water, electricity, communications, and transportation. And it must meet all Liuzhou City and Sanjiang County government regulations. Investment Type: Sole Proprietor or Joint Venture Investment Amount: CNY2,000,000 Analysis of Investment Benefit: annual production of CNY12,000,000 with CNY3,900,000 in taxes Opportunity Expiration: three years

This is good stuff! This is exactly what these small areas need. I have talked much before about all the local tea farmers getting paid too little for too much work. It is all because the market is, as they said above, on the street.

Nobody knows what this guy says to that guy. Locals do not know what price tea should be selling for, they only know what it is selling for, and that is only to the benefit of the middle men.