Thirteen villages of Xuchang city were selected as China's Taobao village, and six townships (towns) were selected as China's taobao town, the amount ranking second in the whole province.

Recently, Alibaba research institute has released a list of Taobao towns and villages in 2019. By the end of June, there were 75 Taobao villages and 44 Taobao towns in Henan province. After Zhengzhou, Xuchang is the one with large number which have 13 Taobao villages and 6 Taobao towns.

The 13 villages are Hanzhuang village, Heshangyang village, Shuangmiao Li village of Dazhou town, Dameng village, Gangli village, Shangzhuang village, Shenzhuang village of Fouerhu town, Houhe town, Liushihua village, Wangmai village of Houhe town, Chaoyang village of Shigu town, Guodian village, Lingjing town, Jianan district. The six towns are Dazhou town, Guanting village, Houhe town, old town of Changge City, Zhuhe town of Yuzhou city, Anling town of Yanling county.

According to the definition of Alibaba research institute, "Taobao village" is a network business clustering phenomenon in which a large number of online merchants gather in a village, taking Taobao as the main trading platform and relying on the e-commerce ecosystem of Taobao to form a scale and synergistic effect.

The identification standards of Taobao village are as follows:

1.     Trading place: The business place is in rural areas, with administrative village as the unit.

2.     Sales scale: The annual sales of e-commerce reached 10 million yuan;

3.     Online business scale: The number of active online stores in the village reached 100, or the number of active online stores reached 10% of the number of local households.

The identification standards of Taobao town are as follows:

1.     The number of Taobao villages in a township or street is greater than or equal to 3.

2.     On the Alibaba platform, the annual e-commerce sales of a township exceed 30 million yuan and the number of active outlets exceeds 300, not limited to whether there is a Taobao village or not.

In recent years, Xuchang city strongly stresses Internet +new opportunities, around cultivating market main body, build development platform, perfect service network, increase the intensity of training, etc., many measures simultaneously, vigorously promote the electronic commerce in rural work, the healthy development of rural electricity present a good momentum, with the "village" Taobao "electricity village" as a representative of the rural county economic development of e-commerce is becoming a new bright spot. On February, Yuzhou city approved by the provincial e-commerce into the rural comprehensive demonstration county, and Yanling town approved by the national electricity into the rural comprehensive demonstration county, Changge approved by the provincial electricity into the rural comprehensive demonstration county, the whole city at or above the provincial level the amount of electricity in rural comprehensive demonstration county has reached 3, the coverage of more than half in agricultural county (city, area). The public service system of e-commerce gradually took shape in the city. Four e-commerce public service centers were built in the city to provide technical support, training incubation, product docking, brand building, planning and packaging, art customer service, agent operation and other professional services. A total of 1,112 rural e-commerce service sites have been built, providing services such as buying and selling on behalf of the people, paying fees for the convenience of the people, logistics and express delivery, information circulation, bringing agricultural products into the city and sending industrial products to the countryside. Changge was named the sixth of the top ten counties of agricultural products e-commerce by Alibaba. Yuzhou jun porcelain and "Sanfen", Changge bee series products, Jianan district hair products, beancurd and folk arts and crafts, Yanling flowers and seedlings boxes and bags, Xiangcheng braised pork feet and other products after continuous cultivation, gradually become the rural regional characteristics of the well-known network sales brand.

In the first half of this year, the city's e-commerce transactions totaled 36.6 billion yuan, up 15.2 percent year-on-year. With over 20,000 rural e-commerce employees and 16,000 online shops of various types, rural e-commerce has become a new forcing power and power for rural economic transformation and development, and a new platform and carrier for mass innovation and employment. Rural e-commerce has achieved remarkable results in releasing rural consumption potential, promoting farmers' employment and entrepreneurship, promoting industrial upgrading, promoting rural development and increasing farmers' income, and has become an important force in promoting the rural revitalization of our city.

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