I'm going to assume they made it all up. Maybe they spun a tale from something but you can't declare failure after only a few days. That's the giveaway it's fabricated on the media's part.
You're new here so I will tell what I've been saying for a long time in this forum. You have billionaires in China that go unnoticed by the government until they have made too much money to hide and then they get arrested for tax evasion. That's how it goes in China. The West wants to paint China as a giant police state that Beijing controls everything in life of everyone. If they control everything, how do these billionaires get unnoticed? If you go by US figures that supposedly follow Chinese figures, the average Chinese family can't afford to buy a car. Cars in China are slightly more expensive than in the US. Chinese buy more foreign brands than they do domestic. China is the largest car market in the world. How is China the largest car market in the world when the average family can't afford one? Why, because Chinese are making money in ways the government doesn't know about. Chinese have a longer capitalist spirit than ever in the history of the West. The Chinese know how to make money that the government can't track. If you listen to the West, China should be collapsing right now and in turmoil because China's GDP is well below the magic number of the 6.5% growth rate "they" say China has to maintain to prevent domestic instability. Where's the chaos in China they said would happen? It's either because those figures are a lie and/or Chinese are still making money not officially counted in government figures. I have much more faith that China will get out of their problems faster than the West will. The media knows it hence why they're so desperate to make it out China has to depend on street vendors because that's saying everything else is failing.
Can you give a personal story of this unofficial income?