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China: Imported fruits are selling out
During the Spring Festival you cannotavoid bringing some small gifts when visiting your friends andfamily. Apart from traditional pastries, like fried dumplings and frieddough-balls, imported products are becoming everyone'sfirst choice. Among them, some expensive fruits, like Australiancherries, which sell for 49.9 yuan for one jin (half a kilogram), orred strawberries, which sell for 49.8 yuan a jin, sell so well thateven some large supermarkets run out of them.
Apart from supermarkets with their long queues, consumers are also drawn inlarge numbers to internet stores which posses the avantage of notclosing down for the night. Sites like Shun Feng Express and JingDong Mall are even able to deliver the same day you order, soAustralian cherries and Taiwanese mangos from Hainan province arrivestill fresh and most have already sold out completely this year.