BEIJING-The major road in Lingtou, a small village in North China’s Shanxi province, is named Weishang, meaning small online shops. A number of locals are engaged in e-commerce, including villager Zhang Xiaoying.
Zhang, 53, sells millet, beans, eggs, honey and other agricultural products both online and offline. Thanks to logistics services being available on her doorstep, she brought home more than 100,000 yuan ($15,223) in 2020.
In the same year, the cement road to her village was widened, allowing large trucks to enter. “My business wouldn’t be booming, as it is, without the road,” Zhang says.
As China advances rural vitalization following its eradication of absolute poverty, improved rural roads have…