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E-commerce injects vitality into rural development in China Yiwu in eastern China's Zhejiang Province has not only won world fame as an international distribution hub for small commodities,but has also brought business opportunities to local farmers through development of e-commerce. Yiwu's Qingyanliu Village,which is praised as China's No.1'e-commerce village',is home to over 1,000 permanent residents and nearly 2,000 online shops. It recorded more than 800 million yuan($121.2 million) in online sales in 2009. The online shops,which are engaged in selling such daily-used merchandise as scarves,toys and lamps,have also attracted some 20 express delivery companies and more than 7,000 workers and business people from other parts of the country. 'Starting up a business on the Internet has helped change livelihoods and lifestyles of local farmers.They have gotten used to computer keyboard and mouse,' Liu Wengao,deputy head of the e-commerce association of Jiangdong community in Yiwu,told Xinhua.
E-commerce injects vitality into rural development in China Yiwu in eastern China's Zhejiang Province has not only won world fame as an international distribution hub ~br small commodities, but has also brought business opportunities to local farmers through development ore-commerce.