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Fran Lu

An 11-year-old Chinese boy who earned 4,000 yuan (US$550) a month selling milk tea at the night market during the summer holidays has been praised for his “business sense”.
Nicknamed Nuomi, the boy is a Primary Five student in central China’s Hunan province.
His mother, surnamed Li, said she let him work as a street vendor to reward him for coming first in class during last term’s final exam.
He got 100 points in English and mathematics and 98 in the Chinese exam.

Li said Nuomi had shown a keen interest in gourmet food and had a head for business.
To prepare his milk tea business, he studied how to make the product and spent two evenings checking out night markets in his home city of Changsha.
He also analysed shop locations and carefully selected the best spot to open his business.
His milk tea stall opened on July 17. It does business every day from 6:30 to 11pm.
Nuomi appeared to be as confident and proficient as a veteran shop owner when serving his customers.

He also pays his grandmother and a classmate to help out on occasion. Li said his business was so busy that he did not have time to eat dinner.
The classmate’s mother let her daughter work at the stall to gain some life experience.
Li said the stall could generate 4,000 yuan (US$a month. After deducting material costs and staff wages, Nuomi could earn 3,000 yuan a month.
The youngster’s stall only sold six cups of tea on the opening day, but it attracted attention after Li posted it online. Many people paid him a special visit to support his business.

She said the stall’s popularity boosted Nuomi’s confidence.
Li said they have agreed to do the business just for fun, and Nuomi would focus on his studies when school starts in September.
An all-round food lover, Nuomi spends hours making sushi, sandwiches and other dishes that even adults consider difficult to make.
“I can already see a future business tycoon in him,” said one online observer.
“I always told my son that he would have to be a street vendor in the future if he did not study hard enough, but he was only allowed to be a street vendor when he achieved the top grades,” said another.
“I admire that he has such an open-minded mum,” a third said.


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