Unlike the wholesale markets in Beijing, very few vendors at this market are independent truckers, who go out to the farm themselves to buy produce directly from the farmers.   Most are brokers, who either rent these permanent stalls and hire trucks to go out the farms in the provinces surrounding Shanghai (Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui) to pick up the produce that they have contracted to buy or buy on the spot from farmers who truck in their own produce.

As in Beijing, wholesalers here will sell to any one who will buy a minimum quantity - typically what can fit on the back of a bicycle cart.

Typical broker's stall.