Rural revitalization looks at the front line ｜ E-commerce helps agricultural modernization and starts a new brand of agricultural products

CCTV News:Zongyang County, Tongling City, Anhui Province is a thousand-year-old county with a history of more than 4,000 years. In recent years, Zongyang County has vigorously promoted agricultural modernization, and with the help of e-commerce, a new brand of agricultural products has been launched locally.

Zongyang County covers an area of 680,000 mu of cultivated land, 170,000 mu of water surface and 550,000 mu of forest land. It is a traditional agricultural county and is known as the "land of plenty".

Tang Yiwei, Deputy Director of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of Zongyang County, Tongling City, Anhui Province:The county government attaches great importance to poverty alleviation and e-commerce. A large number of agricultural products with Zongyang characteristics, such as Zongyang black pig, native eggs and rice and shrimp, have been sold to all parts of the country through national agricultural products pilot enterprises and related e-commerce platforms, which has driven poor households out of poverty.

Since September, the high-quality hairy crabs in Baidang Lake in Zongyang County have been listed one after another. With the help of online platforms, the sales of hairy crabs have increased greatly, and they have reached the table of consumers through express parcels.

Chen Taosheng, an e-commerce practitioner in Zongyang County, Tongling City, Anhui Province:Our crabs are raised by human beings, without any bait, such as green shell, white belly, golden claws and yellow hair. Selling agricultural products through e-commerce has broken the traditional sales method.