Source: CCTV.com

02-01-2009 08:54

Today is the last day of the Spring Festival holiday. During the festival, Chinese people make New Year resolutions and express their hopes for the year to come.

Well that's the last episode of our series Spring Festival report. We wish you a happy Chinese New Year.

People walk in and out of this retail and wholesale market in Beijing, doing their New Year shopping.
People walk in and out of this retail and wholesale market in Beijing,
doing their New Year shopping.

People walk in and out of this retail and wholesale market in Beijing, doing their New Year shopping. The financial crisis doesn't seem to be at the front of most shoppers' minds.

Special New Year products are the most popular. But other vendors are also confident. The owner of this crystal shop in Tianyi Market has been in business for a dozen years. She says business is good, and she has not felt any effects from the economic downturn.

The market's vice manager, Li Qingfu, says instead of poor sales, they are seeing more opportunities.

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