Xiong, a 69 year-old farmer, exits the subway train station to sell vegetables in southwestern China's Chongqing on March 5, 2025. Elderly Chinese farmers carrying enormous baskets of vegetables squeezed into a subway station as its doors opened before dawn on March 5, on the outskirts of megacity Chongqing. As the economy took centre stage at a key political meeting in the capital thousands of kilometres away, the pensioners went about their daily rush into the city centre to sell chives, lettuce and goose eggs for meagre earnings. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)
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