Chinese children deliver food, help courier riders with orders, spark safety concerns
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Huaqiangbei market in the city of Shenzhen is one of the world's biggest electronics markets. It is full of children during the summer holidays.
The children operated as gig workers who helped delivery riders carry orders and locate customers.
They wore a payment QR code around their necks and fought for orders whenever a rider wearing blue and yellow, the uniforms of China's two biggest food delivery platforms, Meituan and Alibaba Group Holding's Ele.me, came along.
Little girls are among the children being used by couriers to deliver food. Photo: Douyin
Alibaba is the owner of the South China Morning Post.
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