James King predicts that approximately 50% of China's workforce (362 million workers) will be gig economy workers by next year (2027).
“I'm gonna predict that about half of China's workers next year will be gig economy workers. That will be about 362,000,000 workers, and that will equate to about half, as I said, 50% of all China's workers.”
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