Connection to the web helps relieve poverty

JD.com Inc, China's second-largest e-commerce player, has been helping villagers in poverty-stricken areas since 2016 with multiple measures, said Liu Qiangdong, CEO of the company.

As part of the measures, JD gives newly hatched chicks to villagers in some poor areas.

"Equipped with a monitoring device, each chick should have walked 1 million steps before they can be sold on JD.com," said Liu, adding that chicken raised in such a way can be priced more than six times higher than those raised in cages.