With many tour guides struggling to make ends meet, the Huangshan Association of Tour Guides released a statement last week suggesting them to take up temporary jobs.
And despite travel restrictions limiting people moving around the country, the tea leaves in Huangshan continue to grow and will need people to pick them.
The association is encouraging the city’s tour guides to work as tea leaf pickers in the city’s mountainous Huangshan district for a daily wage of 170 yuan ($27), with costs for meals, accommodation and travel covered by the owners of the tea gardens…