Helping fellow villagers sell specialties online

Online store owner Liang Qianjuan never thought she would become a deputy to the 13th National People's Congress.

Born in a village in Longnan, Gansu province, the 32-year-old dropped out of the education system after finishing middle school. Poverty gave her no other choice, and she went to Guangdong province to become a migrant worker on an assembly line.

After more than a decade in Guangdong, where she learned to use a computer to deal with complicated tasks, Liang felt it was time to return to her hometown and ride on China's e-commerce boom by running an online store.