After Queen Elizabeth II died, more than 100 employees at a company near Shanghai set aside other work and put in 14-hour days, making nothing but British-themed flags.
abc.net.au/news/chinese-factory-churns-out-british-flags-after-queens-death/101452006Ninety minutes after Queen Elizabeth II died, orders for thousands of British flags started to flood into a factory south of Shanghai.
More than 100 employees at Shaoxing Chuangdong Tour Articles Company set aside other work and put in 14-hour days starting at 7:30am, making nothing but British-themed flags.Some are British flags to be carried by mourners or hung outside homes. Others show Elizabeth's portrait and the years of her birth and death.The first customer sent an order at 3am Chinese time for tens of thousands, according to Fan.
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