beijing, jan. 13 (xinhua) -- e-commerce platforms are *ing china's rural areas prosper by efficiently matching the supply of local produce with the growing appetite of * consumers, a report showed.
rural produce is * its way faster and at a lower cost to * areas as e-commerce players step up presence in the countryside, according to a report by the chinese academy of international trade and economic cooperation, a think tank with china's commerce ministry.
e-commerce platforms like pinduoduo have worked with local governments to include poor households in a sound industrial chain ranging from produce cultivation to processing and sales, lending steam to the country's anti-poverty campaign.
pinduoduo saw the order value of agricultural and sideline products sales via its platform soar over 200 percent year on year in 2018 to exceed 65 *llion yuan (about 9.39 *llion u.s. dollars) and expected the number to top 120 *llion yuan in 2019.
some players are also introducing * industrial products into rural areas to aid local people in creating a higher-quality life, the report noted.
china's online retail sales and produce sales jumped 19.7 percent and 26.4 percent year on year respectively in the first three quarters of 2019, nearly 3 and 10 percentage points higher than the growth pace of overall online retail sales, official data showed.
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