For Zeng Sheng, the manager at Shanghai Maiyi Arts, this autumn should have been a boon for business: With the US presidential election, demand ...
A technician demonstrates for the camera the assembling of a wax figure of US President Donald Trump at a wax museum of Shanghai Maiyi Arts, Aug 21, 2020. SHANGHAI: For Zeng Sheng, the manager at Shanghai Maiyi Arts, this autumn should have been a boon for business: With the US presidential election, demand for the centre's wax replicas of Donald Trump should have been off the charts.
"Tourist sites, amusement parks, houses of famous people are temporarily not open," Zeng said."Since they can't resume work, we can't get new orders."AdvertisementLocated in the outskirts of Shanghai, about an hour's drive from the city centre, its exhibition hall also doubles as makeshift museum, where guests can pose next to replicas of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, martial arts star Jackie Chan, and others.
The coronavirus, however, hit orders twice: First in China, when factories and tourist sites closed, and then overseas. Business remains about two-thirds its normal size, Zeng says.A technician works on a wax figure of US President Donald Trump at a workshop of Shanghai Maiyi Arts, Aug 21, 2020.
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