Traditional calendar days are numbered

Many have already left the industry made outdated by smartphones and the anti - corruption campaign, Xu Jingxi discovers in Guangzhou.

December has traditionally been the busiest month for tenants of Hecheng, the biggest calendar - wholesale market in Guangdong province's capital Guangzhou - but not this year.

Trucks should have been coming and going, delivering stacks of calendars from printers to stores and then to buyers across the country. Salespeople should have been busy checking and repacking to ensure calendars were sent to clients before 2015.