Students' side interest

Charging fees to run errands has slowly become a popular business model in China's internet-based world. Now it seems to have caught on at university campuses.

Millions of students now juggle their busy academic schedules with the additional chores of picking up deliveries for online shoppers among them. So other students have identified an opportunity to make some money and are now charging fees for doing things like collecting deliveries or picking up bottles of hot water, for other students.

The China News Agency reports that students running errands for others can make as much as 3,000 yuan ($435) per month.