Durian trade is a high-stakes hustle in Chinese border town

PINGXIANG, Guangxi – Su Wenpeng once drove a small lorry ferrying durians from Vietnam to China, but that hustle no longer works, he says. Chinese people are consuming so much of the fruit that each shipment now needs a freight truck many times the size. These days, “everything is shipped by the container”, said Su, who has since sold his lorry and drives trucks for a logistics company instead. The old way of “using small vehicles like ants moving houses – that doesn’t exist any more ”. A third of that was driven into China through the small town of…