China buys from world at home

Almost every afternoon, Cao Fushun goes to a nearby express delivery station to see if any parcels have arrived for him. The retired worker has caught the "haitao" bug.

For Cao, haitao (buying overseas goods online) means he can shop from countries he has never previously heard of.

Living in Pengzhou, a county near Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, Cao has bought skimmed milk from Australia, beef from Argentina, and a water filter from Germany, among other foreign goods.