A 65-years-old man surnamed Yang shows the ancient ways of making a button from shells in Xitang. Yang has spent more than 40 years making buttons by hand. The town, with a long history of producing buttons, is a major button production base in China. Today, there are more than 500 enterprises that produce buttons with an annual volume of one billion yuan. [chinadaily.com.cn/by Han Lei]

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