CHANGCHUN Federico Bernardeschi Juventus Jersey , Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Last month was extremely lucrativefor farmer Huo Liang. With the Spring Festival gift giving seasonin full swing, his online millet shop witnessed its top yearlysales.
Thousands of farmers like Huo in Tongyu, in the largelyagricultural province of Jilin, are using online stores to selltheir crops as the government seeks to tackle poverty in thecountryside.
Tongyu has a large number of impoverished people. Though it hasbountiful harvests of millet, mung bean and sunflower, the cropsgrown in the region are known for their high quality.
For Huo, who has been farmer for most of his life Fabrizio Caligara Juventus Jersey , learning therole of an online businessman is no easy task. At 52 years old, hehad to learn everything from scratch about the Internet.
When he first started out, he would forget to include basicthings such as the courier receipt number, making it impossible forbuyers to follow the whereabouts of ordered parcels.
Pricing his millet appropriately for the Internet was alsodifficult, as fierce competition means products must fight forattention with discounts. Huo was again baffled.
Initially, he sold his millet for 15 yuan (2.28 U.S. dollars)every 500 grams. But buyers argued that his price was even higherthan those in supermarkets.
Huo insists on the quality of his product. "The problem withonline shopping is customers cannot touch and taste the milletthemselves until they buy and receive the products," he said.
To better communicate with online buyers Emre Can Juventus Jersey , he replaced hisoutdated phone with a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 for 2,000 yuan, a largeexpense for him.
"With this smart phone, I can talk to potential buyers wheneverI want to, instead of chatting with them via a computer," Huosaid.
The first two months' business was slow. Huo remained patient.Gradually more customers were referred to his shop and people beganmaking repeat orders.
Though his online shop only came into operation a year ago, hesaid it has helped him make more than 1 Douglas Costa Juventus Jersey ,000 yuan extra everymonth.
Yang Xiaofeng, another local farmer, also made a fortune throughe-commerce. Thanks to targeted marketing and better packaging, hesuccessfully sold more than 5,000 kilograms of sorghum rice on theInternet.
While many in affluent coastal areas are getting more wealth byselling products ranging from electronics to socks on the Internet,e-commerce presents a very different picture in rural areas.
The government in Tongyu aims to lift more of its 100,000 poorout of poverty Daniele Rugani Juventus Jersey , by utilizing the Internet. Aside from setting up aspecial office for e-commerce assistance, the government alsoinvited e-commerce consultants and held seminars to tutorinterested farmers.
It hopes to decrease its impoverished population by 25,000annually, mainly through such support measures in e-commerce, thelocal government said.
Its success will also help China realize its goal to lift 70million of people in rural areas out of poverty (measured by thepoverty line of 2,300 yuan of annual income) by 2020.
Huo is confident about the future. He has already devised hisnext step - teaming up with several partners and making their ownbrand. Enditem
GAZA, July 26 (Xinhua) -- In spite of the UN-sponsored 12-hour Humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip on Saturday Cristiano Ronaldo Juventus Jersey , Mo'taz, 30-year-old Gaza fisherman, was unable to go fishing for a living.
Several fishing boats parked on the white sands of Gaza city's beach, where Mo'taz stood near his small yacht watching the Israeli army naval battleships and gunboat in the middle of the water. He can do nothing but sighed.
"I haven't been able to catch fish for more than 19 days. Before that I used to do so almost every day," said Mo'taz, adding "The Israeli army informed 4,000 fishermen from the Gaza Strip that they are not allowed to fish in the sea until a further notice."
On Saturday Claudio Marchisio Juventus Jersey , the UN mediated a humanitarian ceasefire for half day in a bid to enable medical teams to pull out corps and survivors from under the rubbles of houses flattened by Israeli war jet missiles and tank shells over the past two weeks.
"I have no other jobs or careers, except fishing. I'm 30 years old and I have been a fisherman since I was a kid," said Mo'taz, adding that "I really missed the sea and missed catching fish ... and I don't know for how much longer it will take to stop this war on us."
He said one of Gaza militants' demands is to expand the allowed area for fishing from three miles to 12.
"I feel myself like a fish, if it is taken out from water, it dies, and I hope these demands will be soon accepted. Gaza has no fish at all for almost three weeks."