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#taobao villages

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E-Tailing

Mar 5, 20172 min read

Chinese ‘Taobao villages’ turning poor communities into huge online retail hubs

Thanks to the rapid development of China’s e-commerce industry, over 1,000 “Taobao villages” across the country are turning poor communities into huge online retail hubs, creating more than 840,000 job opportunities. These villages are so-named because at…

General

Oct 25, 20154 min read

China’s Taobao villages show e-commerce can transform rural India

Narendra Modi’s Digital India is a scheme that includes connecting all Indian villages with broadband. He says this will empower rural Indians, without spelling out all the details. He should learn from China’s Taobao villages, which have been transformed by…