XI'AN ECCO Track 6 Gtx Moc Toe Hi Boots Black UK , Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Jianbin surprised his parents, who live in rural northwest China, when he presented them with abalone caught half way around the world.

 

The abalone was part of a fresh New Zealand seafood package, which cost 621 yuan (94.4 U.S. dollars), that Zhang had ordered online. Three days after the processing of online transaction ECCO Jeremy Hybrid Tie Black Moonless UK , the package was at the rural online shopping station in Wujiazhuang Village in Luochuan County, Shaanxi Province, ready for him to collect.

 

"As we live so far from the sea, we have never eaten anything as exotic as this before, so I jumped at the chance to treat my parents to seafood as a lunar new year gift ECCO Jeremy Hybrid Tie Espresso UK ," said Zhang, who is an English teacher.

 

As online retailers expand their business to rural areas, families in rural China, like Zhang's, are spoilt for choice when buying items for the coming big holiday.

 

Many e-commerce platforms ECCO Ian Tie Coffee UK , such as Alibaba and JD, have set up service stations in rural areas that have Internet-linked computers and sample products on display. Villagers can order at the stations and return a few days later to collect their packages.

 

Data showed that Alibaba had 12,000 rural stations involved in the festival online purchase. Rural buyers accounted for 15 percent of all orders via Alibaba.

 

Rural consumption surged by 117 percent year on year, and the average value of each order was 262 yuan, with items ranging from apricots to automobiles.

 

It is traditional to have nice food and new clothes for the lunar new year ECCO Illinois Bike Toe Tie Black UK , as well as gifts for families.

 

Apart from orders made by local villagers, station manager Wang Mingqiang in Longxi Village, Zhejiang Province, said he has processed deliveries that were ordered thousands of miles away.

 

"One buyer was away working in Guangdong Province, and placed orders online and had them delivered home ECCO Illinois Wing Tip Tie Black UK ," Wang said, adding that many migrant workers were choosing to shop online.

 

Another station manager, Wu Yanfeng, said one of her customers spent more than 20,000 yuan online at her station in Wuzhai Village on a television ECCO Men's Holton Plain Toe Tie Black UK , a refrigerator, a washing machine and other items for her daughter whose wedding comes after the lunar new year.

 

"Ordering online is much easier than travelling to the county seat to go shopping," Wu said.

 

Villagers can also sell their own products. Apples, eggs and honey were among the top items bought by urban buyers during the purchase festival.

 

Wang Xiaobing, an official on market and economic information with the Ministry of Agriculture ECCO Mens Yucatan Sandals Bison Black UK , said e-commerce will help develop China's rural areas and increase farmers' income.

 

To boost rural e-commerce, China plans to have full broadband coverage in villages and expedite construction of logistics infrastructure, the central government said.

 

Wei Yan'an, a rural e-commerce expert in Shaanxi, said ECCO Mens Yucatan Sandals Tarmac UK , "Easier access to high-quality overseas products might push domestic products and services to upgrade."

 

 

 

WASHINGTON， April 14 (Xinhua) -- Republican presidential hopeful Senator Ted Cruz on Thursday doubled down on calling his Party's leader in the U.S. Senate a liar despite his campaign's recently intensified efforts to court GOP elites.

 

"Every word I said there was true and accurate，" said Cruz during a town hall hosted by MSNBC in Buffalo， New York.

 

The showdown between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Cruz， a darling of the conservative Tea Party who had for long built reputation on bashing the GOP establishment， came last July when the junior senator from Texas called McConnell a liar during a senate floor speech on the expired Export-Import Bank.

 

"We now know that when the majority leader looks us in the eye and makes a commitment， he is willing to say something he knows is false，" said Cruz at the time， accusing McConnell of lying to Republican colleagues in private meetings about his intention of reviving the Ex-Im Bank.

 

The conservative wing of the GOP had long been attacking the Ex-Im Bank as an example of "crony capitalism."

 

While his blistering accusation sparked fierce backlash from Republican colleagues， who argued that the accusation had broken Senate rules， Cruz on Thursday defended his remarks.

 

"The reaction in the Senate is 'How dare you say that out loud? They're not upset that somebody lied to them. I mean， that's the amazing thing，" said Cruz.

 

According to the Senate rules， available on the Senate website， no senator in debate "shall， directly or indirectly， by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator."

 

Long before his anti-establishment presidential campaign began 12 months ago， Cruz had few friends on Capitol Hill and was viewed by congressional Republicans as rigid ideologue who preferred to act alone to push forward right-wing agendas at the cost of shutting down the government.

 

The aversion to Cruz in Washington has been summed up by a well-known joke here that goes like this: the best way for U.S. President Barack Obama to generate eight vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court would be to nominate Cruz to the body.

 

As the bellicose GOP front-runner Donald Trump continued strides toward securing nomination of the Republican Party， GOP elites have become obvious in their desperate attempts to stop Trump from being nominated and begun turning to the exact man they had loathed previously and still dislike now.

 

In recent weeks， former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina， both of whom had bowed out of the 2016 White House race， endorsed Cruz.

 

Cruz， however， had so far only garnered two endorsements from 54 Republicans in the Senate.

 

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