The sign says, "No hardhat, No entrance." It sure didn't look to me like everyone was wearing hardhats though. Just as in America, people in China often ignore hazard warnings.
This man is making lolipops in the shape of different animals. Candies formed into different shapes have been made in Asia for a very long time. If I recall correctly there is a Song dynasty painting of a man doing the same thing that you can see here.
In the uproar that is sometimes heard in the Western press about the Chinese black market sometimes people forget that selling things like produce are part of this grey market. I think that it would be safe to say that most Chinese people are dependent upon the grey market in one way or another.
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