E-commerce helps alleviate poverty in rural areas of China

A piece of garlic may be a dime-a-dozen with an average price of less than one yuan (14 cents), but for farmers from Qixian county, in Central China's Henan province, it has been a "gold mine".

With 100,000 orders per day from e-commerce platforms at peak, more than 250,000 kilograms of garlic have been sold to places across the country.

Qixian is the "homeland" of garlic. The area had been suffering from poverty for decades, but it is now riding e-commerce to boost sales and shake off poverty in the process.