At 7:30 am, flower farmers pick roses at a plantation in Lufeng County, which lies around 100 km northwest of Kunming. 

At 8:30 am, the picked flowers are soon packaged.

At 9:00 am, trucks carrying flowers began to gather at the Dounan market.

Every day, Yuan Hua, a truck driver, carries more than 20,000 flowers to Dounan market. 

At 12:00 am, Yuan Jin arrived at the Kunming flower auction center in Dounan, where around 3 to 3.5 million flowers are sold daily.