Transformers makers: a bogus news?

If it is real, that they have been earning more than 1 million yuan ($160,000) annually in Caotian village since 2007, the transformers would not have stood on mud-gravel ground by the shabby hub (that is their workshop building?). 1 million yuan a year is not filthy rich, but it is still good enough to have some decent factory. So the news is just bluffing.
What do you think?

Context:

Man, son transform life with Transformers
( chinadaily.com.cn ) Updated: 2015-03-17 13:25:38

In today's trending, man and son make great living building Transformers models, Beijing's traffic leads to arrest of robbery suspect, questions over skyscraper built in 19 days, cooking pots burden for man, and outcry over students forced to exercise in rain.



Yu Lingyun looks at a giant transformer model in Hengyang county, Central China's Hunan province, March 14, 2015. Yu Zhilin and son Yu Lingyun, farmers of Caotian village in Hengyang, began to make giant transformers models since 2007. [Photo/Xinhua]

Father, son hit right button with Transformers

While the Hollywood blockbuster Transformers series swept China with viewers spending billions to watch the films, two farmers in a Chinese village instead are making money out of the transformers.

Yu Zhilin and his son Yu Lingyun make giant transformers models, some of which are as tall as 20 meters, from waste auto parts, earning more than 1 million yuan ($160,000) annually in Caotian village, Hengyang county, Central China's Hunan province, Xinhua News Agency reported.

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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/trending/2015-03/17/content_19832501.htm