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A New ‘Farm Tool’

It took less than five years for Yang Qiu to transform himself from a young migrant worker in a poor village to an e-commerce entrepreneur running a business with annual sales exceeding 50 million yuan ($6.92 million).

Yang is from Xiushan, a mountainous Tujia and Miao autonomous county in the southeast of Chongqing Municipality. Thanks to an e-commerce business incubator, he was able to put his entrepreneurial talent to good use by starting his own company.

In Chongqing, which has an area of 82,400 square km, more than twice that of Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai combined, similar stories are emerging every day, with e-commerce businesses facilitating

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