"Visit Taobao if you want to live a better life"
The number of Taobao villages has grown from 3 in 2009 across 3 provinces to 2,118 in 2017 across 24 provinces. Most Taobao Villages are concentrated in east coastal areas; and, the top three provinces by total number of Taobao Villages are Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangsu, accounting for 69% of total.
95.8% of Taobao Villages participated in donations with over 600 million transactions.
Taobao Villages in China's poverty counties reached 33, led by Pingxiang county of Hebei province. Online stores set up by Pingxiang cover over 7 million online users, as much as over 20 times of its population.
Daji Town in Cao County saw the growth of Taobao Villages to 32 from 2 in 2013 with over 24 thousand online stores and a total sales of 2 billion yuan.
The total sales generated from Taobao Villages exceeded 120 billion yuan in 2017. The operation of Taobao Vi...
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