(Combating New Crown Pneumonia) Ministry of Commerce: Rural Internet Businessmen Break Ten Million to Attract Large Numbers of Migrant Workers and Return to Hometown
China News Agency, Beijing, March 28 (Reporter Li Yanan) At the press conference of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council on the 28th, Wang Bin, head of the Department of Consumer Promotion of the Ministry of Commerce, said that China's rural online business has exceeded 10 million A large number of migrant workers, college students, and veterans returned to their hometowns to start their own businesses.
During the epidemic, many Chinese farmers opened contactless sales channels through various e-commerce platforms and logistics networks, and transformed into "cargo anchors" for online sales on popular platforms such as Quick Hands and Douyin, which hedged the impact of the epidemic.
In this regard, Wang Bin pointed out that e-commerce into the countryside has achieved significant results in smooth urban-rural two-way circulation, helping poverty alleviation, and rural rejuvenation, mainly in the following areas: supplementing the shortcomings of rural circulation, promoting rural consumption upgrades, and stimulating rural areas Innovation and entrepreneurship have driven farmers' income growth.
China's online retail sales of agricultural products reached 377.5 billion yuan (RMB) in 2019, a 1.5-fold increase from 2016. Rural areas received more than 15 billion express delivery, accounting for more than 20% of the country's total express delivery business.
Wang Bin revealed that up to now, there have been more than 10 million rural e-commerce companies across the country, attracting a large number of migrant workers, college students, and veterans to return home to start their own businesses. Last year and this year for two consecutive years, the State Council included 20 counties and cities with outstanding results in developing rural e-commerce into the scope of typical incentives.
He said that for the development of rural e-commerce, there are still problems such as lack of professional talents, weak industrial foundation, and relatively high logistics costs. Next, the Ministry of Commerce will work with relevant departments to strengthen the cultivation of rural e-commerce merchants, improve the rural distribution network system, and strengthen the rural foundation. Facilitate the construction of facilities and promote the transformation and upgrading of township commerce and trade, guide places with conditions to build front warehouses and distribution centers in large-scale agricultural production areas in key townships, improve the efficiency of agricultural products entering the city and industrial products to the countryside, and encourage e-commerce and express delivery. Enterprises such as logistics and logistics have sunk to the villages and towns, further improving the rural distribution network, and enabling businesses to enter the countryside in the "last mile." (Finish)