The rice pounding business is generally handled by Chinese from Chaochow, for example; pawnshops by Chinese from Chaoyang; woodcutting by Hainanese; wineshops by Hakkas; and machine making by Cantonese.
如碾米由潮州人包辦，鋸木業多半是海南華人，酒樓經營屬客籍華人最在行，典當業則是潮陽縣籍華人的天下，粵籍華人獨佔機器製造……。