CCTV News: China has more than 2,800 county-level administrative regions. Developing county economy and improving county business system plays an important role in promoting consumption and driving economic growth. The 2025 government work report proposes to "improve the county-level business system." At present, various places are actively transforming county commercial carriers such as county-level comprehensive commercial service centers and township commercial centers to bring the old appearance of county commercial infrastructure.

In 2025, the agricultural and sideline comprehensive market in the center of Yuqing County, Guizhou Province has a new look. Moving from the original souk market to a new building of 12,000 square meters, the hardware upgrade is in place. There are 200 fixed stalls, more than 500 active stalls in the new market, and a pesticide residue testing room.

Not only in Guizhou, in 2025, Guangxi will focus on the construction and transformation of commercial infrastructure such as trade centers, logistics and distribution centers in 19 counties. In Yangshuo County, Guilin, this duty-free super-sports shopping city covers an area of ​​over 100,000 square meters opened to welcome guests not long ago. At present, more than 500 internationally renowned brands have settled in, giving tourists and local residents a new shopping destination.

Data from the Ministry of Commerce shows that from 2023 to the present, a total of 2,628 county-level comprehensive commercial service centers, 13,391 township commercial centers, and 138,000 village-level convenience stores have been built and renovated nationwide. The county and rural commercial facilities have been upgraded, which is driving the continuous growth of passenger flow. Technology helps to smooth the "capillaries" of rural logistics

Now, county commercial networks are constantly being weaved, and technology application scenarios are constantly expanding. While more industrial products are quickly "going to the countryside", it also makes it easier for more rural characteristic agricultural products to "enter the city".

At 3 pm, at the rural delivery logistics comprehensive service point in Quanpi Village, Xiaoling Township, Chongyang County, Xianning City, Hubei Province, the person in charge Chen Hui met with this driverless delivery vehicle on time.

In 2025, more than 20 natural bay groups in Chongyang County are expected to realize cement asphalt roads. While road conditions are improving, the local government is currently setting delivery routes based on 5G network technology to achieve "village access" for driverless delivery vehicles.

In a large e-commerce logistics public distribution center in Qi County, Henan Province, through technological upgrades in 2025, different express delivery companies have realized server sharing and sorting systems sharing.

At present, more than 100 million express parcels are entering and leaving the countryside every day, and about one-third of the counties in the country have achieved "on-day delivery" of express delivery.

Business Big Data Monitoring, in 2024, rural online retail sales were 2.56 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.4%. The continuous clearance of "capillaries" in counties and townships has also allowed the advantageous industries of rural areas to go further.

In Gaotang County, Shandong Province, local governments have used innovative technology packaging to maintain water temperature while allowing local koi to survive for 72 hours. Relying on the "land transportation + aviation" multimodal transport, they arrived in 30 provinces within 48 hours.

The reporter learned from the coordination mechanism meeting for the construction of county commercial system recently held by the Ministry of Commerce that in 2025, the country will further improve the county commercial network, innovate and develop business models, achieve a significant improvement in the circulation efficiency of agricultural products, continue to improve logistics and distribution efficiency, and promote the continuous expansion of county consumption scale.