The founder of China's Amazon wants his 700,000 blue-collar workers to be 'white-collarized' in time for AI

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Richard Liu Qiangdong, founder and CEO of JD.com, delivers a speech during the 2nd World Intelligence Congress (WIC 2018) at Tianjin Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center on May 16, 2018 in Tianjin, China.
JD.com founder Richard Liu said he would retrain his 700,000 delivery workers as robots take over manual delivery tasks.

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China's era of one-yuan lattes and cheaply delivered meals is cratering

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A Meituan food delivery rider in a yellow jacket and helmet rides an electric scooter with a large black insulated box and plastic bags hanging on the handlebars, navigating through a busy shopping district with pedestrians in the background in China.
A Meituan food delivery rider.

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Efficiency helped turn Silicon Valley around. China is taking it to the extreme to do the same.

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China's tech workers are facing growing pressure to boost performance from their bosses.
China's tech workers are facing growing pressure to boost performance from their bosses.

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Amazon Is Ditching Plastic Packaging Abroad—but Using Even More in the U.S.

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