Email"I only have some samples in my car. If the police come, I can just pretend that I bought some for fun. A friend of mine was detained on Monday by police for 15 days in their latest crackdown," he added.
Wu said they imported most of their goods from Zhuozhou, Hebei province, last August.
"There were fewer police on the highways checking fireworks transport than now. Even so, we needed to bribe some of the checking points," he said.
A male customer told the sales team they could make a lot of money.
"The shop owner I usually use in the village earned 300,000 yuan in just three months before the last Chinese New Year," he said.
According to a fireworks regulation released by the municipal government on Christmas Day last year, only licensed shop owners can sell fireworks from Feb 7 to 28 inside the Fifth Ring Road in Beijing. All products must be approved and certified by the government.
A nine-year-old boy blew his four fingers off from unlicensed fireworks last week near Daxing district, the Beijing Times reported yesterday.
