Li Juan, sitting in a wheelchair, and her family pose for a photo in a pear orchard in Tangzhai Village of Tangzhai Town in Dangshan County, east China's Anhui Province, Oct. 23, 2019. She became paralyzed in 2008 due to illness, only her head could move. Li has set up an online business to sell agricultural products for villagers. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)
The China E-commerce Poverty Alleviation Alliance has helped with sales of agricultural and specialty products from the country's poverty-stricken areas worth around 284.5 million U.S. dollars in total since its founding in August 2018.
BEIJING, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- The China E-commerce Poverty Alleviation Alliance has helped with sales of agricultural and specialty products from the country's poverty-stricken areas worth over 2 billion yuan (around 284.5 million U.S. dollars) in total since its founding in August 2018.
The alliance, consisting of 29 member enterprises such as e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, is dedicated to helping with the branding work of quality agricultural and specialty products from poor areas and promoting links between production and marketing.
Local villagers count the number of agricultural products for sale in Shenzhou, north China's Hebei province, July 25, 2019. The city has pledged to lift its rural people out of poverty through the e-commerce platform. (Xinhua/Li Xiaoguo)
To date, the alliance has certified 102 companies as producing quality products and provided certification training to 597 companies in 20 provincial-level regions.
It has held six promotional events across the country for such products, which witnessed nearly 800 intentions for cooperation.
Recently, at the alliance's promotional event held in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province in southwest China, member enterprises signed 28 intentions of cooperation with local businesses to help with the sale of agricultural and specialty products, worth over 100 million yuan in total. ■
