{
  "id": 737834,
  "title": "Research: over 53M people in China worked as food delivery or ridesharing drivers as of 2025, up 10M in two years, amid accelerating automation in manufacturing (Financial Times)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/research-over-53m-people-in-china-worked-as-food-delivery-or",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-13T05:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/a3803e70-cb4d-444f-a31e-05be2f2c44f6?accessToken=zwAAAZ_5xcXzkdOjgD5wy01ET9OjHgW-LyxE9g.MEUCIQCWTIny3JTJV8e-PGyK0XL2tg5g_7Ay-rpKkwGZCpp1-AIgbMgJQPlqWgqAsX4s1k4gYaC4b8k0JveZOs35OJQvbZ4&sharetype=gift&token=7e8483bb-395d-429e-afca-2f4ab5ad150b"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "As construction slumps and manufacturing automates, 53mn Chinese now work for low wages in food delivery and ride-hailing.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}