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12/04/2020

E-commerce booms in Tibet’s agricultural, pastoral areas

LHASA, April 11 (Xinhua) — Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region has been making efforts to boost e-commerce in its agricultural and pastoral areas, according to the local poverty alleviation office.

Tibet has set up hundreds of e-commerce service centers in its villages, towns and counties to help form an e-commerce service network and help locals get jobs or start up their own businesses.

Thanks to these efforts, the total revenue of online sales in these areas had reached over 200 million yuan (about 28.4 million U.S. dollars) in 2019.

“We can sell local specialties such as dried yak meat and curd to customers via livestreaming,” said Samten, a herdsman who lives in Zaxoi Village in Lhasa, capital of Tibet.

Samten added that the spike in online sales in Tibet was due to the Internet and logistics coverage in nearly all the villages.

At present, major China’s express giants including SF Express and JD.com have set up branches in Lhasa and other cities, while more couriers have entered counties and villages across the region, benefiting more local farmers and herdsmen.

Source: Xinhua

30/09/2019

Fugitive on run for 17 years found living in cave by a drone

Fugitive arrested by policeImage copyright YONGSHAN POLICE
Image caption After 17 years, the fugitive was tracked down by a drone

Chinese police have arrested a fugitive who’d been on the run for 17 years, after they used drones to spot his cave hideout.

The 63-year old, named Song Jiang by the police, had been jailed for trafficking women and children but escaped from a prison camp in 2002.

He had been living in a tiny cave cut off from human interaction for years.

Yongshan police received clues about Song’s whereabouts in early September, they said on their WeChat account.

Those clues led them to the mountains behind his hometown in Yunnan province in south-west China.

Aerial shot of the cave entranceImage copyright YONGSHAN POLICE
Image caption Drones spotted the cave on a steep hillside

After regular searches failed to find anything, authorities sent additional drones to help the officers.

The drones eventually spotted a blue-coloured steel tile on a steep cliff as well as traces of household rubbish nearby.

Police then moved in on foot and found Song in a small cave where he’d been hiding for years.

According to the police, the man had been living in seclusion for so long that it was difficult for him to communicate with the officers.

State media said Song had used plastic bottles to get drinking water from a river, and branches of trees to make fire.

He has been sent back to jail.

Outside of the caveImage copyright YONGSHAN POLICE
Image caption The inside of the cave was about 2 sq metres (6.6 sq feet)

Source: The BBC

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