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What a Person-Time Cannot Tell a Courier

China's AI reskilling target — 50 million subsidised training person-times by 2030 — rests on a unit that counts seats filled, not workers transformed. This essay examines why 人次 cannot show whether any displaced worker found stable employment at better pay, a defect JD.com's Nirvana Plan for 700,000 couriers inherits unchanged. The sole instrument that could honestly answer the question is already in place: a pension contribution ledger read at 36 months.