Jingyuan county, in Gansu province recently agreed to allow three e-commerce companies to use land in Jingyuan's e-commerce industrial park. Alibaba, Suning and Jingdong Mall may use the land of 6,600 square meters freely for three years.

The policy was set to drive local e-commerce, according to the local government.

Jingyuan county is using emerging Internet opportunities to develop e-commerce, especially online agricultural trade. The local government has held 20 training sessions for more than 1,600 businessmen.

The county has also constructed an e-commerce industrial park to serve as an operating center, incubator, and logistics center, with 500 million yuan ($78.55 million) of investment.

These efforts have paid off, with many local products such as Jingyuan lamb, jujube and Chinese wolfberry seeing wider distribution channels on the Internet.

The county now has 439 retail shops on Taobao, an online shopping mall, and private online shops account for more than 90 percent of the total. And 124 companies have their own online shops, and 55 companies entered Alibaba in the form of business to business (B2B). More than 10 rural e-commerce service centers are scattered around the county.

Edited by Andrew Ancheta