Alibaba goes country with $715m rural e-commerce bet

E-commerce titan aims to deepen penetration in China’s less-developed regions via its investment in Huitongda, an online shopping site targeting the rural market.

Jack Ma is taking his e-commerce ambitions somewhere new: China's vast rural hinterland.

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