Crisis offers silver lining

Wang Lei, a sales manager at a safe maker in Zhejiang province, found that as the global economy started to go into free-fall his business started booming.

He said that although employees at Safewell Group Holdings Ltd were currently working flat out, it was still unable to meet soaring demand, particularly from the United States.

With banks on the brink of bankruptcy and top finance firms going under, people want to know their money is safe. That's why they are turning to firms such as Wang's to snap up burglary safes.