In Kevin Zhang\u2019s quiet, two-storey house in Gloucester, hundreds of parcels blanket the living room floor. Each package \u2013 shipped from China \u2013 is bound for British customers who placed orders on Temu, TikTok Shop and AliExpress.<\/p>\n
Zhang, 49, moved to the United Kingdom from China\u2019s rustbelt northeast in 2000, and spent years running a local nail salon. But in March, he sensed that something big was happening with China\u2019s cross-border e-commerce platforms \u2013 and decided to make a change.<\/p>\n
He transformed some unused space in his home into a pop-up warehouse, and began processing orders on behalf of Chinese exporters: handling, picking, packing, labelling and distributing packages across Britain for \u00a31 (US$1.35) per parcel.<\/p>\n
The business has quickly snowballed. After just a few months, the side hustle is already earning Zhang nearly \u00a32,000 a month \u2013 on par with a typical graduate starting salary in London.<\/p>\n
\u201cDemand from Chinese exporters is so strong, I\u2019ve had to start turning people away,\u201d he told the Post.<\/p>\n
Makeshift warehouses like Zhang\u2019s are spreading across the UK, as Chinese immigrants cash in on the rapid expansion of China\u2019s shopping platforms in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Kevin Zhang\u2019s quiet, two-storey house in Gloucester, hundreds of parcels blanket the living room floor. Each package…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[56684,324,3801,748,1395,48585,88433,393,88434,36,5014,4884,88435,257,1144,70149,712,8162,31868,449,16,15,978,1764,88436],"class_list":{"0":"post-224007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-aliexpress","11":"tag-amazon","12":"tag-beijing","13":"tag-britain","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-chinese-exporters","16":"tag-emily-yin","17":"tag-england","18":"tag-eric-he","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-gloucester","21":"tag-great-britain","22":"tag-kevin-zhang","23":"tag-london","24":"tag-northern-ireland","25":"tag-rednote","26":"tag-scotland","27":"tag-shein","28":"tag-temu","29":"tag-tiktok","30":"tag-uk","31":"tag-united-kingdom","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-wales","34":"tag-wechat"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114766731376707260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}