"Internet +" Agricultural Product from Villages to Cities Project is a major step to increase the income of farmers through products of good quality and good price.

Recently, the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting Project of ‘Internet +’Agricultural Product from Villages to Cities” has been issued, further promoting the transformation and upgrading of agriculture in Zhejiang Province, so as to help farmers to get rid of poverty.

The implementation opinions put forward eight key tasks, including strengthening the infrastructure construction of producing areas, focusing on the quality and brand construction of agricultural products, comprehensively implementing the traceability management of agricultural products, promoting the construction of cold chain facilities for agricultural products storage, improving the logistics system of agricultural products, deepening the multi-dimensional production and marketing docking, accelerating the construction of big data of important agricultural products, and expanding the training of e-commerce operation talents.

Every county in Zhejiang Province is supposed to set at least two pilot districts to promote the standard system that can be learned and followed by other counties.

According to the implementation opinions, 100% coverage of network sales outlets in villages and towns will be realized by 2022.

The framework of the supply chain, operation service, and support system with pilot counties as the backbone adapting to the net sales of agricultural products should be preliminarily established.

It is planned to make more than 120 billion yuan by online retail sales of agricultural products and built 1,000 e-commerce demonstration villages.

18,000 rural logistics outlets will be upgraded and transformed to achieve 100% coverage of township network sales outlets.

The supply chain, operation service, the support system for online sales of agricultural products should be basically completed. It will be more convenient, smooth, and efficient for agricultural products to export out of villages and cities. Besides, 1,200 e-commerce demonstration villages are to be built, with the online retail sales of agricultural products reaching 160 billion yuan.

(Compiled and translated by Xu Yuhong)