Crystals, sandwiches and nail art: Student dorm rooms in China turn into ‘shops’ for side hustles


First-year master’s student Wang Rui (far right) and her five roommates started a crystal shop in their shared dormitory room. - WANG RUI

BEIJING: Over the weekend, a queue of around 10 to 15 students waited patiently for their turn to enter the newest “shop” on campus – dormitory room 403 at Qingdao University of Science and Technology in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong.

Once in the six-bed dorm room, they headed to a carefully decorated table in the narrow space between two bunk beds to pick their preferred crystals to be strung into a bracelet or necklace.

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