Hair today, gone tomorrow as old salons close in Shanghai

By noon on Tuesday, his first working day of the week as Monday is the day off for his shop - the Nanjing Hair Salon in Shanghai - the 56-year-old Chen Mingxing has cut the hair of about a dozen people.

But instead of looking satisfied, the barber appears rather unhappy.

Not that the Shanghai native dissatisfied with his morning's work. But the manager of the city's, as well as the country's, most historic hair salon is worried that despite a lot of customers this may not be enough to sustain the over 80-year-old business.