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Jianming Feng, 47, was stabbed to death Friday night in Melbourne while delivering for HungryPanda. He had been in Australia for nine years supporting his wife, two adult children, and elderly father in a nursing home back in Shaanxi. He rarely spent anything on himself and never went home. He planned to return in a year or two for his son’s wedding. On the day he died, he had just finished a video call with his wife. He and another rider confronted a man allegedly tampering with their bikes. He was stabbed and died at the scene. A 51-year-old has been arrested. Colleagues and the Chinese community remember him as hardworking and kind — “Brother Feng.” HungryPanda exports a familiar Chinese platform model: riders treated as contractors with thin protections, coordination and pressure via WeChat (which Chinese police have previously used to contact Australian-based riders and their families during pay disputes), and an ecosystem built around Alipay and WeChat Pay. Customers order and pay through those systems. Earnings and remittances flow back the same way. A man who spent nine years sending money home is dead. The digital tools and business practices that shaped his working life continue operating abroad. Other governments have largely stayed quiet. RIP Jianming Feng.