Farmers can hire Resident Agents to sell their produce at the wholesale markets. These agents, usually from the same locale as the farmers, moved into the city to stay full-time at the wholesale market as the farmer's agent.

Garlic brokers from Shandong
at a wholesale market in Shanghai

Resellers are individuals, who buy from the wholesale markets and resell at "free market" centers. No licenses or registrations are required and the average start-up cost is simply the cost of a bicycle and a bicycle-load of produce.

Reseller leaving a wholesale market
at 7 a.m. for a downtown "free market".