Story By: John Feng, Sub-Editor:  Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report

This celebrity chicken farmers videos regularly notch up millions of views and his latest is a tribute to doctors working on the front lines using 4,000 of his birds and grain.

Shang Yukang, 31, who calls himself the ‘Chicken Commander’, regularly garners millions of views on his clips posted to short-video sharing platform Kwai.

In his latest work, the native of Cheng County in China’s north-western province of Gansu gathered more than 4,000 chickens and guided them into the simple drawing.

Using chicken feed, Mr Shang draws the lines on the ground, and the chickens naturally fill up the space as they peck away at the food.

In a matter of minutes, the birds are left standing in the form of a health worker, who is dressed in a white coat and wearing a surgical mask.

“I salute our doctors and nurses,” Mr Shang wrote.

The farmer with nearly half a million followers online shot to fame after he began using his spare time to create images with his chickens.

His work was featured by Chinese state media on 1st October last year when he created the number ‘70’ to mark the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China.

The Chicken Commander, whose rags to riches story is seen as an inspiration to many, has since been invited to give talks about his experience.

Mr Shang left his hometown as a 17-year-old in order to work in factories in large coastal cities such as Beijing.

As a disillusioned young man, he eventually used his savings to purchase 500 chicks and a piece of land, on which he now rears several thousand birds.

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