China's first student delivery team set up in Chongqing

Believed to be the first in the country, a delivery squad recently was set up by students at Sichuan International Studies University in southwestern China's Chongqing city.

As Chinese university students are now keen on online shopping, the campus delivery shops are always flooded with parcels and short of hands. The campus team was founded to solve the problem and create part-time jobs for students.

With cooperation from Alibaba's Cainiao Logistics, the university invested in an approximately 300-square-meter office for the business, which started operations in September.

Full-time delivery workers have been replaced by 176 part-time students, who are responsible for distributing the parcels after they are sent to the campus by the logistics company, according to Lei Mingfeng, a senior student who is now in charge of the office.

"During peak season, we have handled over 13,000 parcels a day," he said.

The hourly pay is 10 yuan ($1.40) and a student can work 20 hours a week.