Swift service: An SF Express courier delivery rider sorting packages in the back of his tricycle on a sidewalk in Beijing. — AFP
Beijing: From making illegal cross-border deliveries to China in a minivan to buying a fleet of Boeing aircraft, the boss of SF Express has ridden a wave of online shopping to become one of the country’s richest men.
Though secretive and media-shy, founder Wang Wei has found himself thrust into the spotlight after the listing of his SF Express courier service on the Shenzhen stock exchange made him a billionaire twenty times over.
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