[4][5] Chen helped the delivers who joined his groups deal with difficulties, including staged crashes and negotiations with police.
[4][6] In February 2021, Chen and some other delivers complained that Ele.me and delivery platforms launched to reward riders to stay in Beijing during the Chinese New Year activities are suspected of deception.
[10] His friends raised about 1.2 million CNY (around 20 thousand US dollars) to pay the attorneys' fees, who were later warned by the police to give in.
[11] Chen opened a series of social media accounts to publish short videos related to delivers, including Douyin, Kuaishou,[12] Sina Weibo, and Bilibili.
[7][18] An article from The Christian Science Monitor compared the April visit of government official Wang Lin to the delivery industry with the event and criticized labor relations in China.