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BEIJING: Chinese farmers, dairy farmers and ranchers are finding more profitable alternatives to sell their goods direct to consumers. In prior times, they had to rely on middlemen who bought their goods in bulk and resold them to retailers. Under such circumstances, the middle men were the biggest winners.They would offer low prices to agricultural producers and re-sell the items to merchants at high profit margins. Farmers and ranchers were too busy working on their lands, so they were limited in how they could sell their goods.But today, agriculture producers can tap into their computers, smart phones or mobile devices to open up accounts on e-commerce sites to sell their foodstuffs direct to online consumers. But there’s stiff competition and farmers must seek creative ways to market their products.Livestreaming video Apps have become very popular in China. Villagers from rural regions are filming themselves visiting farms to sell goods produced in their local communities.The hosts need to be entertaining in order to attract more subscribers eager to buy items, via transactions on WeChat Pay or Alipay. All payments are stored as permanent electronic records to ensure full transparency, honesty and to track all-related business activities.Many ordinary Chinese folks have transformed into livestreaming superstars. A host who is funny or entertaining would have the best opportunities for success here and that’s why you hear about a high number of rags to riches stories in this field.The popular livestreaming platforms for Chinese farmers, according to CGTN, are: Huangzhou-based Alibaba Group’s TabaoLive and Beijing-based JD.com.The two Chinese e-commerce giants continue to compete for more e-buyers and that benefits farmers as they can receive generous treatment from both platforms. Other popular livestreaming video sharing apps are TikTok and Kuaishuo.Local government officials have also joined in on the act. You can read more about it from CGTN:As reported by CGTN:“Local farmers are reaping the rewards of their hard work. Lu Yongchun, another deputy county mayor in Shandong Province, stood in front of the camera to advertise purple sweet potatoes on the e-commerce platform Pinduoduo. As one of Linshu County's specialties, purple sweet potatoes, usually expected to be sold out before March, are suffering poor sales this year. In the first two hours of Lu's live broadcast, 40,000 kg of purple sweet potatoes were sold. They had sold out.Lu said that livestreaming e-commerce can reach more potential customers while avoiding gatherings to reduce risk of cross-infection. It can also help to boost the popularity of regional specialties, increase farmers' income and alleviate poverty, reported Xinhua.”We are looking at very remarkable achievements. It sets the tone for how government agencies can provide more business benefits to farmers to include, public-private-partnerships. Local officials stand eager to promote their communities while livestreaming apps serve as useful tools for them.Politicians love positive public recognition and farmers seek to reach out to more customers. They can work together to generate more local tax revenues while increasing farmers’ incomes.On March 15, Li Ningbo, deputy secretary of Huming County in east China’s Shandong Province, had starred in a livestreaming event and visited an outdoor food market in the community. He showed off 30 kinds of agricultural products to viewers and sold 3,300 dozens of eggs, 7,500 ears of corn, 1,500 kg of garlic and more, which set a one-day sales record for this market.Results matter most in the business world. Chinese farmers and ranchers would like to create more demand for their products to raise prices to get higher incomes. Livestreaming video app had already proven to be very effective to enrich the lives of residents in agricultural communities.

About Xinjiang, nearly all biased and some reports are even ridiculous.A cemetery in Xayar, NW China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has recently become a bone of international contention. CNN reported that graveyards in the region were being demolished by authorities, highlighting stories such as that of Aziz Isa Elkun, a Uygur poet now residing in London, who had said he couldn't find his father's grave on Google Maps. So a crew from CGTN decided to find out if there was any truth to the CNN report. Click the video to find who's spinning a lie for the audience.Video: By following CNN, we find how they make fake news about Xinjiang"I cannot find my grandfather's grave," said Sadir Yasin, standing in the midst of an undulating graveyard riddled with crevices. It's been several years since Yasin and his parents stood across the street of the deserted slope to talk to their deceased loved one. "I was 10 years old when my grandfather passed away in 2010. Back then, I would come here with my family to visit my grandfather's grave, but a couple of years later, we could no longer find it," Yasin told us.He's not alone in the village of Yakruyk, in Uqturpan – a county under southern Xinjiang's Aksu Prefecture and only 70 kilometers from China's border with Kyrgyzstan.Numerous grave mounds pile in heaps across the small slope, exposed to the scathing sun, floodwaters, and arid winds from the Taklamakan and overgrown ruderals. In addition, Uygurs, especially those who were living in impoverished rural areas, didn't have the custom of erecting tombstones. Instead, they would stick a small branch on top of a mound to mark it. Over time, these branches would go missing, and they wouldn't be able to locate the graves of their relatives.Sadir Yasin stands in the midst of an old burial ground, in Uqturpan, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, January 6, 2020. /CGTN Photo"It's hard for villagers to find their departed families buried in this ground, which has a history of over a century," said Mexmut Toxti, an official of Yakruyk Village, adding that the area has become disorderly and unsightly after years of exposure to the harsh natural environment, so that no one wants to put their departed family members here.This rundown burial ground is one of the 2,728 old cemeteries distributed throughout the prefecture of Aksu. A number of residents worried that they couldn't find their family's graves and had complained to local officials seeking help to improve the environment of the grave sites."We started planning environmentally-friendly cemeteries here in Uqturpan back in 2005, at the request of over 95 percent of local residents who have their families buried on such dilapidated slopes," Halmurat Ismail, head of the county's civil affairs bureau, told us. It took a decade to finish building 99 eco-friendly cemeteries across 108 villages, many of them perched next to the old graveyards for convenient relocation of the graves.Yasin has had more fortunate neighbors who had been able to identify the grave of their families and relocated them from such dirt mounds to new cemeteries with tombstones on them."Some of the families that didn't have money when a member passed away wouldn't be able to spend up to 3,000 yuan to hire someone to dig a grave, but now farmers are able to accept paying 1,000 yuan to buy one in the new cemetery," observed Mexmut Nur, who's in charge of the funeral industry in Yakruyk.An old cemetery in Uqturpan, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, January 6, 2020. /CGTN PhotoIn nearby Tagharchi Village, we visited another new cemetery built in 2016, which is seated just beside its corresponding old burial ground that has now been converted into arable land. Villagers living below the poverty line can earn higher incomes from growing walnuts – a local specialty – wheat and other crops there."My grandfather passed away in 1990 and used to be buried in this small graveyard. It was difficult for us to walk through the mud, dirt and garbage to pay respects on Eid al-Fitr and the Corban Festival every year," said Rozi Wushur, a local walnut farmer. Now, after the relocation, he only walks a few steps to the new cemetery to talk to his grandpa.For Tursun Yaqub, an imam at one of the village's mosques, his parents had been buried at the old site, which often flooded during the summer and was constantly overrun by weeds. He moved the remains of his parents to the new cemetery in 2016. "I feel a peace of mind when I no longer need to worry that I won't be able to find them one day."An environmentally-friendly cemetery in Uqturpan, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, January 6, 2020. /CGTN PhotoWhen asked what he thought of Western claims that "China has destroyed more than 100 Uygur Muslim graveyards," Halmurat responded: "What's wrong with moving the graves (of your families) to a new location that's better? The parents of others can be buried in green fields (environmentally-friendly cemeteries), so why should we have to bury ours in the desert?"Muslims in different places have different sacrificial rites and funerary inscriptions, except for ground burials and the exclusion of women in the process. In Middle Eastern Islamic culture, a grave can be used for any purpose after 30 years, according to a source.There are currently 821 cemeteries in Aksu Prefecture, the majority of which were built near old cemeteries, and can satisfy demand for the next 20 years. On top of that, the old, empty ones have not been destroyed, but just turned into farmland for villagers to subsist on or to earn some money from. The graves that can't be identified are maintained so that their families can still visit them from afar.Source: Battling against time in China's unmarked Muslim cemeteries

Decide to do something today that your future self will be proud of… Consider the opportunity you have in 10th grade, by beginning this moment to seriously dedicate and prepare yourself to practice law by disciplining yourself with the RULE of 3: 1) Purchase 3 on-line, CD/DVD courses for $20 such as the 14 lectures about law/torts from the Classic Great Course Company. 2) Visit 3 court room hearings to observe how decisions about law are administered and enforced. 3) Assign yourself to complete 3 brief informational interviews with lawyers at lunch, dinner, tea-time each year until you graduate from a university. 3) Visit at least 3 different law libraries in the basement of City, County, and State government buildings. 4) Visit at least 3 different law schools to walk the hallways, look inside the classrooms, walk the isles of the law libraries, and to identify yourself as a future law student by watching the current students. 5) Visit 3 law firms each year and ask if you could work/ intern/volunteer to help on projects (even if you are running the copy machine for stenographers/court reporters). 6) Read 3 biographies of great lawyers and their landmark cases regarding statesmanship. 7) Attend 3 of your local city or county government public hearings/meetings. 8) Watch 3 law related movies, i.e., “The Firm”, 9) Write on paper and tape it on your wall each week 3 goals to accomplish, that are related to your vision of becoming a suitable attorney administering the rigors of evidence based justice and contributing value to the community. By saying “yes” to the “study of law”, you are saying “no” to the many intrusive, attractive, tempting distractions that obstruct your goal to become proficient in law, and to acquire sufficient KSAs (learn how to use West Law) and character attributes to achieve your vision. 10) You are running a marathon, therefor begin each day by deciding again, and again, and again, to make it happen with one more step forward, moving toward your goal, seeing it completed in your mind, and deliberately and intentionally practicing one more skill for succeeding on your LSATS. Each quarter (3 months) interview 3 law students, law clerks, or law-assistants about their particular legal practice and specialty. 11) Get onto LinkedIn.com and invite as many lawyers/ law professors/Deans/ law firms as possible to tell you about their success. Attend conferences that promote legal discussions. Ask your network of teachers, neighbors, and friends who they might know practicing law, in order to become familiar with the wide range of case law in the industry (IP, Grand Jury, federal, state, etc). 12) Ask editors to offer feedback on your writing. Take public speaking courses offered by Carnegie and Toastmasters. Read cases about the many judges/ lawyers/ politicians who are disbarred (forfeit their license to practice law) each month, in each state for malpractice, lack of integrity, and for violating the ethical code of public trust. I look forward to hearing of your successful completion of law school, and to practice law in a manner that enhances your strengths and promotes your unique giftedness, and that is a tangible blessing for serving your community. I share these remarks from my experience of having won significant cases in court, contributed to HR Bills, and won university Tribunals. I am offering advice that I needed to hear when I was in 10th grade. However, my parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, neighbors, teachers, and counselors unfortunately did not consider, or encourage the next generation to aspire.