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MFast has 160,000 agents nationwide to serve customers’ financial needs, especially in lower-tier Vietnamese cities.

Shopee’s all-in-one platform supports rural entrepreneurs with the tools they need to expand their customer reach.

Apart from making popular consumer products accessible to Indonesia’s rural communities, rapidly growing Dagangan is also manufacturing its own goods.

It’s become clear that China’s rural markets are going to be the next big thing. But with more players entering the space, what are the major implications?

Despite US$24b worth of rural produce sold online, problems with government and private businesses must be addressed before ecommerce can make a real dent on China’s farmer poverty.

China’s small cities and rural regions are booming, and online retailers are racing to capture this promising consumer power.

China’s internet market is absolutely huge already, but the next decade of Chinese internet development will be driven by a massive demographic nobody ever talks about.

Alibaba is teaming up with the Communist Youth League to teach China’s teens how to spread ecommerce in rural areas.

Yesterday, Google India released its first cohort of internet bicycles in Dausa, Rajasthan to teach rural women how to use the web.

Nearly half of China’s population still lives in the countryside, and that’s a market China’s ecommerce giants have barely touched.