Liu Zihao is a florist shop owner in Beijing.

These could include even street-level businesses-say, a humble old woman's "shop" on the sidewalk selling socks, umbrellas and hair clips, a mobile fast food xiaotan or stall on an electric tricycle, or a neighborhood florist.

The florist's sales over the past few days were between 50,000 yuan ($7,300) and 100,000 yuan per day, higher than sales before the COVID-19 pandemic, she said.

"A quarter of my flowers are sold online," said florist Zhang Kuaping from the Kunming Dounan Flower Market.

Li Yunbin, a 58-year-old florist in Jingmen, Hubei province, has been working with Li Shubin for three years.

For a florist, the key is to select the right product and the right technical support to avoid getting off track.

Peng Guotai, a fresh flower florist at Kunming Dounan Flower Market, the largest fresh-cut flower trading market in Asia, said most of his flowers are sold to Beijing, Shanghai and Inner Mongolia.

Yuan Fuwang, a florist, kept a close eye on the trading screen where deals are made between flickers of numbers.