“In recent years we use increasingly more and more Qingdao special local products after I come back home,” Xu Meng, who is from Northeastern China said. “Let me show you, in supper of Chinese new year’s eve, we drink Tsingtao Beer, eat Qingdao seafood and Liuting pig’s feet, we also will have some bags of dried fish and have a cup of Laoshan tea when we watch spring festival gala, Qingdao Made Products dominates our dinner table.”

    Before the spring festival, the journalist finds that migrant workers will bring various kinds of spring festival purchases back home when he interviewed in Qingdao railway station, shopping malls and farm product market. Besides meat gift box, Laoshan green tea, Tsingtao beer and seafood gift pack are almost Must Item for them.

    “Laoshan tea is very famous in my hometown, its price is reasonable, and easy to bring,” Xu said. “My hometown is in Mishan city of Heilongjiang province, no tea trees grow over there. I brought back 2 boxes of Laoshan green tea, my family all said it tasted very good, I will buy some more this year.”

    Besides all kinds of gift boxes, many migrant workers prefer to bring another foam box full of seafood back. “My parents ask me to bring sea fish and shrimp back.” Li Dejun said. He bought seafood from seafood zone in RT-Mart in Jinsongqi road.

    “I went back home by train in the 1st year after I worked in Qingdao, so I could not bring too much things. I chose to bring a dozen of kinds of Tsingtao beer back home; my whole family all enjoyed the beer together in the Chinese new year’s eve. That was impressive to me, even in today,” Zhang Bin said. (Lu Bo) [Xu Meng, a girl from Northeastern China, bought goods for spring festival in super market]