Online sales are rural hit

Huang Bin and his wife show how the internet is changing lives, even in villages of China

Huang Bin, a 29-year-old man with cerebral palsy, from Baishenmiao, a town in Shucheng county in Anhui province, started to run a small shop in his village after he finished junior high school.

In 2010, Huang opened an online shop on Taobao to sell clothing.

In 2013, Huang met He Linqiong, of Sichuan province online, and his cleverness and sincerity won the girl's heart.

Soon they got married.

With the help of his wife, Huang Bin completed training in 2015 to become a partner of the Village Taobao program to facilitate online shopping and delivery in rural areas.

Since then, the couple have done a lot of work online and offline to help villagers understand the convenience and benefits of online transactions.

In 2015, the number of online shopping orders that Huang received was 4,516, worth 763,000 yuan ($114,800; 98,570 euros; ￡87,960).

Huang's online shop is getting more popular by the day as an increasing number of people in rural areas gain access to the internet.

He Linqiong, Huang Bin's wife delivers express mail to villagers working in the fields. Photos by Tao Ming / Xinhua

(China Daily Africa Weekly 11/17/2017 page4)