By delivering food for food delivery riders, kids in Huaqiangbei earned their first pot of gold in life.
In terms of social enlightenment, no one can outpace the kids in Huaqiangbei.
While kids across the country are on summer vacation at home, primary school students in Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei have already earned their first pot of gold.
These kids hover around the malls and office buildings in Huaqiangbei. As soon as the delivery riders park their electric bikes, they swarm forward and shout, "Need a delivery service?" "Choose me, choose me!"
The kids selected by the delivery riders take the food bags, mark the designated locations on them, and after confirming the payment, they plunge into the skyscrapers behind them.
As food delivery assistants, these kids only need to complete the "last 100 meters" of the delivery task for the riders, that is, deliver the food from downstairs to upstairs. The riders will pay them 1 - 2 yuan per order.
The kids in Huaqiangbei are extremely busy this summer vacation.
Some kids can earn a dozen yuan a day from delivery services, while others can earn eighty to a hundred yuan. The one who earns the most can make three to four hundred yuan a week. What does three or four hundred yuan mean? They can even buy boxes of spicy strips in bulk.
While adults are still trapped in the dilemma of "unable to earn big money and looking down on small money" and missing out on opportunities time and time again;
The kids in Huaqiangbei have proven with practical actions that as long as you have an eye for work, there are opportunities everywhere.
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Delivering Food for Food Delivery Riders
The Kids in Huaqiangbei Earned Their First Pot of Gold
Maybe they are enthusiastic about anything but studying, or perhaps the taste of earning money for the first time is too tempting. More and more kids are gathering in Huaqiangbei to deliver food.
Some of them work alone, while others bring their families along.
Aunt Zhang sells electronic products in the SEG Electronics Market in Huaqiangbei. Her daughter came to accompany her during the summer vacation. When she has nothing to do, she goes downstairs to do delivery services and goes back to the store to blow the air - conditioner when she is tired.
There are two little sisters doing delivery services. The younger sister is in the first grade of primary school, and the older sister is in the second grade of junior high school. Their mother works in the Feiyang Times Building. They have been playing around here since they were young, so the adults are more at ease.
Some kids come out to do delivery services with adults.
For example, Mr. Guo who lives in Huaqiangbei brings his four kids. They come out at 11 a.m. and go back at 4 p.m.
"We can do 50 - 60 delivery orders a day, and the income is about a hundred yuan." "Each delivery order pays 2 yuan. My nephew can earn more than 20 yuan a day, and he is very happy."
Although the money earned from food delivery services is not much, there is still room for business.
Some kids deliver an order as soon as they receive it; some take three orders at a time and deliver them one by one upstairs; some older kids take several orders at once, don't deliver them themselves, but distribute them to other kids and take a "middleman fee" of 1 yuan per order.
Never underestimate the abilities of these kids.
They have never worked a single day, but they are born to be good workers. They have a good sense of time and service awareness.
One kid accidentally spilled the customer's soup while changing elevators. He politely apologized and took the initiative to take responsibility.
"Sorry, sister. I was in a hurry, and a little soup spilled out. Can you not give a bad review to the delivery brother..."
Most of these kids are the second - generation of stall owners in Huaqiangbei. They have been exposed to the idea that honest business is the foundation for survival since childhood.
Even if each order only pays 2 yuan, they will do their best. If the elevator breaks down during the delivery, they will climb 22 floors to deliver the food to you.
When they get near the customer's workstation, they just shout. Even the most introverted kids will dare to speak up after doing delivery services for a couple of days.
They are really hard - working kids. They don't complain about walking more than 20,000 steps a day.
When netizens praise them, saying, "The most hard - working generation is back" and "This is better than playing with mobile phones at home"; the workers in Huaqiangbei have already written in their food orders: Please, let the kids deliver the food upstairs.
The "kids delivering food by running up and down the buildings" has become very popular.
A few days ago, the Huaqiangbei Sub - district Office issued a notice banning minors from doing food delivery services, and the kids had to stop their business.
But it has to be said that the reputation of "Huaqiangbei doesn't raise idle people" has been further enhanced.
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The Ladies Who Run Up and Down the Buildings
The "Food Delivery Ferrymen" in Huaqiangbei
Why is there a food delivery assistance service? Because the terrain in Huaqiangbei is too complex.
On this street of less than three square kilometers, there are dozens of dense commercial buildings, mainly including the SEG Plaza, Feiyang Times Building, and Baohua Building.
As the "No. 1 Electronic Street in China" and the "Largest Electronic Product Distribution Center in Asia", there are tens of thousands of merchants and employees here. It is as difficult as climbing to the sky for the riders to deliver food.
Take the SEG Plaza, the landmark building in Huaqiangbei, as an example. This former "No. 1 Electronic Market in Asia" has 72 floors, including a stall market and an office building.
You have to wait in line for half an hour for the elevator during peak hours. And it doesn't end there after getting in the elevator. You need to change to different elevators on some floors. Sometimes it's even faster to climb the stairs.
Finally, when you reach the target floor and want to enter the electronic market, the dense stalls are like a maze, making you dizzy.
Some people try to find rules in Huaqiangbei, but Huaqiangbei has no rules. The building structures and counter numbering rules of each market are different.
"The stalls numbered 1A201 and 1A202 are in completely opposite directions."
Every rider who comes to Huaqiangbei for the first time will experience a great deal of self - doubt and mental breakdown in their career.
The second, third, and fourth - time riders are not much better.
There is no effective experience to share. "I use the location to get to a similar area and then ask a lot of people." "I've been here so many times, and I'm still confused."
Getting lost in Huaqiangbei is a collective nightmare for riders, and the fact that the food can't reach the office for half an hour after arriving downstairs is also a pain for the workers in Huaqiangbei.
In this situation, a special group of workers - the ladies who run up and down the buildings - emerged.
These ladies were originally cleaners, property management staff in the buildings, restaurant workers, or part - time workers.
They are familiar with the layout of the buildings. Every meal time, they flock to the streets from all corners, forming a unique "secondary food delivery market".
An aunt from Anhui has a good reputation. She has been doing food delivery assistance services in Huaqiangbei for four or five years. Many couriers and food delivery riders know her well and leave the delivery services to her.
The aunt said, "I can do 500 - 600 delivery orders a day. When I'm too busy, I distribute them." After distributing the orders to the kids, the aunt will take a "middleman fee" of 1 yuan per order.
After the kids in Huaqiangbei were banned from doing delivery services, the ladies who run up and down the buildings became the main force again.
In the short drama "Miracle" being filmed in Huaqiangbei recently, the actress Yan Ni plays a "lady who runs up and down the buildings".
However, the ladies who run up and down the buildings are not omnipotent.
These ladies, who operate at the end of the delivery system and on the edge of the algorithm, although they take over the last leg of the delivery, they still can't satisfy everyone.