Border trade with Vietnam flourishes in Dongxing

When Xiang Jiancheng started doing business in Dongxing two decades ago, trade in the China-Vietnam border city was still lukewarm.

"Only a few Chinese vendors filled the small markets in Dongxing back then," Xiang, 49, a Dongxing resident in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, said.

"If you wanted to buy Vietnamese products, it was basically the Chinese vendors who bought commodities in Vietnam and sold them in Dongxing."