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CCTV9英语新闻:中国农民拥抱互联网销售产品

时间:2014-04-22 08:57:33

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The stereotypical1 notion of China’s countryside in one filled with quaint2 villages and farmers tending terraced plots on the side of a mountain. Nowadays, however, a computer, an internet connection and a mobile phone have become as indispensable to rural farmers as a tractor.

 

Wang Baofeng is one of China new breed of rural entrepreneur. He was a simple farmer in Changge county, when he rented his neighbours land and expanded his farm to 1,000 mu or about 160 hectares. The 43-year-old has since hired more than 40 farmhands and last September he took his business online.

 

“Our business model used to be focused on selling directly to local supermarkets and restaurants. It was hard to expand our customer base, so we started our online business about seven months ago. Online sales have far exceeded our expectations. We’ve very happy,” said Wang Baofeng, manager of Henan Yuxing Agricultural Development Company.

 

Wang receives about 20 orders a day on his farm’s website. During harvest he’s also received orders worth 30,000 yuan a day from his link on Taobao, China’s largest retail3 platform.

 

Wang is not the only farmer to take advantage of the Internet. Some 125 million rural residents in China are now connected to the web.

 

And Henan province – one of China’s most rural, most densely4 populated and least developed – is using the internet to give local farmers a hand-up in the world of e-commerce.

 

“We’ve been developing e-commerce for rural farmers for 10 years. It has boosted the province’s rural economy by at least 1.6 billion yuan a year. The next step is to improve farmers’ websites and guarantee the quality of their produce,”Wu Yuanqi said, he is director of E-Commerce, Henan Provincial5 Administration of Commerce.

 

The internet is not only helping6 put cash in farmer’s pockets it’s also helping them boost output. Wang and his staff take online courses sponsored by China Unicom. They’re learning new farming techniques so they can grow fresher, Greener’ crops that are in high demand.


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1 stereotypical af5b561e94abd66f688fbfcccaffdce3     
n.常规
参考例句:
  • Personas should be typical and believable, but not stereotypical. 人物角色应该是典型和可信赖的,但不是一成不变的。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
  • Anything could be stereotypical, so I guess it could be criticism. 任何东西都可以变的老套,所以我猜那就是一种批评。 来自互联网
2 quaint 7tqy2     
adj.古雅的,离奇有趣的,奇怪的
参考例句:
  • There were many small lanes in the quaint village.在这古香古色的村庄里,有很多小巷。
  • They still keep some quaint old customs.他们仍然保留着一些稀奇古怪的旧风俗。
3 retail VWoxC     
v./n.零售;adv.以零售价格
参考例句:
  • In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
  • These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
4 densely rutzrg     
ad.密集地;浓厚地
参考例句:
  • A grove of trees shadowed the house densely. 树丛把这幢房子遮蔽得很密实。
  • We passed through miles of densely wooded country. 我们穿过好几英里茂密的林地。
5 provincial Nt8ye     
adj.省的,地方的;n.外省人,乡下人
参考例句:
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
6 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
参考例句:
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。