Shanghai’s emerging middle class love their shiny new cars - 8,000 new ones appear on the city’s roads each month.
But they’ve quickly discovered they don’t love washing the dust and dirt off of them. So in Shanghai’s HID (Have It Done) culture a new cottage industry has grown up - neighbourhood car washes with several families operating in the same spot for convenience. This one outside a 1930s apartment building along Suzhou Creek is typical.

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