Online sales skills lifting poor farmers

E-commerce is helping add value to homegrown products in an impoverished rural county and improving the lives of thousands of farmers.

Zhou Furong used to grow flowers in Guangshan county, Henan province. Three years ago, the 40-year-old picked up the basics of running online shops at a free training session organized by the local government. She found the knowledge made all the difference.

"As soon as my flowers went online, they were soon sold out," she said.