China kids deliver food, help courier riders with orders, spark safety concerns


Authorities clamp down on outsourcing-to-children method used by food delivery riders who get kids to undertake chore of finding customers. — SCMP

A new trend of children helping food couriers deliver orders that had emerged in a well-known electronics market in southern China has been nipped in the bud by the authorities.

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.

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