First Sheep products e-commerce center opens in North China

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2014-04-03

The E-commerce Platform of the Inner Mongolia Sheep Products Trade Center - the first sheep products E-commerce center in China - officially started operations in Bayan Nur, North China’s Inner Mongolia on March 31.

The E-commerce center will provide a variety of services including stock-in-trade, information inquiries, storage and delivery to those enterprises, cooperatives and farmers in the businesses of live sheep, carcasses, wool and downstream products. They are free to choose their own terms of trade based on their specific needs. Up to now, some 30 companies and industrial cooperatives have participated in the center’s trade.

Based in Bayan Nur - a city that ranks first among other cities and prefectures in Inner Mongolia for its sheep output – the e-commerce center will radiate its services to surrounding areas, throughout the county in future. It is looking for standardization in sheep production, supply and sales, by integrating industrial resources and further standardizing the sheep trade.