Xinjiang herders embrace e-commerce convenience

Courier delivers 20 to 40 parcels a day to people in hard-to-reach communities

It was 9 am, and courier Ma Yong and a co-worker were loading parcels onto a van at the Qinghe county logistic distribution center, before setting out for the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region's remote Sandaohaizi Valley, where most local herders graze their flocks in summer.

Around the same time, herder Kusayen Halidulla and his family were packing up in the valley, in northwestern China, in preparation for the migration to their fall pasture.