NANCHANG Nike Air Max Plus TN Mens Sale , Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- On an ordinary winter's day, hundreds of workers packed tonnes of navel oranges into boxes, taped them up and loaded them onto trucks in southern Jiangxi Province.
It was their busiest time of year after the fruit ripened in November.
"Yesterday I sent a batch to Urumqi, and soon I will send two batches to Heilongjiang Province more than 3,000 kilometers away," said Li Feng Nike Air Max Plus TN Sale , a worker in an e-commerce park in Anyuan County in southern Jiangxi.
"We have a maximum order of 7,000 batches a day. When orders flood in on e-commerce promotion days, we have to rush to the farmers' home to buy more oranges," said Jia Longfei, another worker of the park.
"It was only in the last two years that the remote county has been transformed into a busy logistics base for the oranges," said Qiu Hongbin Nike Air Max Plus NS GPX Sale , director of the county poverty-relief office.
Since 2016, the county government, which deemed roads-building as essential to the development of the county, has spent 391 million yuan (about 46 million dollars) to renovate and build over 330 kilometers of rural roads.
"After the rural roads were upgraded, the average logistics costs have been cut by about a third. Lowered costs helped the fruits sell well," Qiu said.
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In the last five years, the provincial government has spent 41 billion yuan (about 6.2 billion U.S. dollars) on rural roads. Authorities said better rural roads had reduced travel time, facilitated trade and allowed more movement of people and goods.
In the next three years, the province aims to upgrade and build 12,000 kilometers of rural roads.
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"Efforts should be made to build good roads in rural areas and maintain them to ensure a better quality of life for farmers and accelerate agricultural modernization," Xi said in December.
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