--FILE--bottiglie di Lao Gan Ma o Laoganma salsa chili sono in vendita su uno scaffale in un supermercato a Pechino in Cina, 19 novembre 2015. Della Cina di best-s
--FILE--Bottles of Lao Gan Ma or Laoganma chili sauce are for sale on the shelf at a supermarket in Beijing, China, 19 November 2015. China's best-selling chili sauce is "Lao Gan Ma, " which translates to old godmother. It's also helping one of the poorest provinces support some of the country's fastest economic growth. The spicy sauce found in millions of kitchens is stocked in every store for about 10 yuan ($1.45). It's also carried abroad by Chinese, though it's increasingly available internationally, and on Amazon.com (for $9). The chili magnate who has earned herself a loyal following is Tao Huabi, 69, from Guizhou Province, a poor, mountainous region in the southwest that's now one of the brightest spots in the nation's economic slowdown. Tao's company, Guiyang Nanming Laoganma Food Co. in the provincial capital of Guiyang, helps give the city a prop. It had sales of 3.72 billion yuan in 2013, according to a local paper, Guiyang Evening News.
