Wearing light makeup, Liang Qianjuan started a livestreaming session on her phone, telling a story about walnuts grown in her hometown and their health benefits. Within a minute, dozens of orders for the walnuts swarmed in from her online followers.
Liang is a businesswoman from Huixian County of Longnan City in northwest China's Gansu Province. As the owner of an e-commerce company, she has been a deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC), the top legislature, since 2018.
Having dropped out of school at the age of 17, Liang started up her business in 2012 and enjoyed great success, popularizing e-commerce in her remote hometown.