New rural internet network initiated in Guangxi Province

Sent as a village officer to a remote place in Guangxi province –Ke’an, population 5,800– Mr. Guo Weijing installed and supported an Internet network to give some meaning to a rural community increasingly closed in on itself.

The China Daily reports that a website on the life and affairs of the village, an online supermarket, an online dating site and a commemorative online platform are initiatives launched by Mr. Guo build links between the inhabitants of the same village, between villages or between villages and cities. In China, the virtual world is not confined to urban areas but is spreading gradually into rural areas too.