Online marketplace gives farmers new outlet

Editor's note: In the run-up to the 19th Communist Party of China National Congress, China Daily sent six reporters to villages nationwide to live for a month and take a look at how people are working to ensure that China's poverty eradication plan succeeds.

Xu Dan, a township government employee in Longnan, Gansu province, feels lucky to have opened the first online store in his community three years ago.

"At that time, the government had started to put more emphasis on developing e-commerce as a major poverty alleviation measure," he said. "I was assigned to open the first online store in Wangba township."