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Chinese dig deep to join the gold rush
27 January 2010 The Guardian UK
The assistant pushed the red velvet sacks across the counter discreetly. The customer quickly slipped them into her bag. With a brief, nervous look around, she walked briskly from the shop, already clutching her car keys.
Few people feel comfortable lugging around a kilo of pure gold bars. But that doesn't stop Chinese shoppers from thronging to Caibai, the number one place for buying the precious metal. The Beijing store's 5,000 daily customers are at the forefront of a new gold rush.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jan/25/chinese-gold-rush-demand
