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    Should a Deliveryman Be Considered a Leading Talent?

    Jul 09, 2020 5 minutes
    Copyedited by Madhusudan Chaubey

    In the last few days, 25-year-old delivery-man Li Qingheng has become an Internet celebrity. Li works at the Hangzhou sector of express delivery company STO Express, and gained widespread attention after winning an express delivery professional skill competition in Zhejiang Province in east China last year. Hangzhou, capital city of Zhejiang, is where online commerce giant Alibaba’s headquarters is located, and also a center of the Internet Plus industry.

    This success earned him the title “Zhejiang Provincial Technological Expert” from the Zhejiang Human Resources and Social Security Department. More recently, he was named Hangzhou’s leading talent, making him eligible for a 1-million-yuan ($141,000) housing subsidy when he purchases his first house in the city, in addition to welfare benefits including medical insurance and children’s education.

    The news that a deliveryman had won the title of leading talent and professional technological expert was widely

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