Kunming's flower business brings people prosperity

As Qixi Festival, or Chinese Valentine's Day approaches, seven to eight million flowers are being sold every day by the electronic auction services of the Kunming Dounan Flower Market.

For a regular day, that figure stands at 3.5 million, according to Wang Yang, a manager of the trading center.

"To cash in on the golden opportunity, the market has been preparing for days," he said.

As a barometer of China's flower market, the Kunming-based market in Southwest China's Yunnan province saw the trading volume of fresh cut flowers reach 9.23 billion in 2019.