Until recently, Gyatso rarely worried about his business.

That's no surprise though, because the 50-year-old entrepreneur was born into a nomadic family in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture in Sichuan province, an area where people from the Tibetan ethnic group are reputed to have been "born with the golden touch".

Since leaving home in the 1980s to conduct business in Dagze, a county in the Tibet autonomous region, and later Nepal, he has developed his company into one of the region's most successful producers of Tibetan incense.