They are not even allowed to buy their own products. I gave a free camera to one of the kids who worked an electronics factory. He recognized me months later,

They are not even allowed to buy their own products. I gave a free camera to one of the kids who worked an electronics factory. He recognized me months later, while he was waiting tables at the Railway Hotel Restaurant in Shenzhen. I took out a late model camera that they just produced and told him it was a free sample and he can take it. He told me to keep it with me until the Chinese New Year, or it would be confiscated from him as stolen property :-( That night he went to the mall in Lou Hu and bought me a photo album as a gift. Must have cost him a day's salary, but the Chinese are too proud to take free gifts and usually try to pay it in kind ASAP. I still have the photo album; it has butterflies and unicorns, but I like it.