Beautiful succulents are exhibited at Qingzhou floral park. [Photo provided to Chinadaily.com.cn]

Qingzhou floral park sells 400 million succulents every year.

Most succulents come from more than 500 growers in 20 villages of the city, and are sold on an e-business platform.

The succulent business is fiercely competitive as more and more people enter and share the limited domestic market. Small-sized online shops are often the first to be affected, and many of them have to lower prices and profits to gain buyers from large sellers who accumulated customers and sales volumes in former years.

The e-business platform of Qingzhou floral park has offered help to the small-sized growers and retailers in the city by creating a super-scale online shop with them as its suppliers.