Since July 25, online searches with the keyword "Zhang Licai" have suddenly surged. On Google, it takes only 0.15 seconds to search approximately 8,800 relevant results; through Baidu, it takes only 0.069 seconds to search about 765 relevant web pages; even in the Chinese interactive encyclopedia, there is also a new entry for "Zhang Licai"... Who is Zhang Licai? What did he do? Why has he suddenly received so much attention?
It turns out that the latest "unofficial news" circulating online claims that Hu Bin's courtroom stand-in for the Hangzhou street racing case has been revealed by netizens as a taxi driver named Zhang Licai. Although there is no solid evidence and the court previously denied the "taking the rap" claim, some photos that were found have sparked a new wave of verification efforts among netizens.