A host promotes shoes during a commercial livestreaming in Wenling, a county-level city of Taizhou, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/WeChat account: tzfb001]

Three places from Taizhou, East China's Zhejiang made the 2022 list of top 100 counties (districts) in China in terms of e-commerce competiveness.

Wenling, a county-level city in Taizhou, was ranked 18th, while Tiantai county and the county-level city of Linhai were ranked 27th and 63rd respectively.

In 2021, Wenling's online retail sales volume hit 21.29 billion yuan ($3.28 billion), up 23.2 percent year-on-year.

That same year, the city was designated a national model for rural e-commerce.

Wenling has set up a number of facilities to tap the streaming e-commerce boom. To date, it has reached partnerships with platforms including 1688.com, a B2B platform of Alibaba Group, and Kuaishou, a short-video sharing platform.

Meanwhile, Tiantai excels in selling agricultural products through e-commerce. The county has teamed up with domestic e-commerce giants including Tmall and JD.com.

Official statistics show that e-commerce has created about 23,000 jobs in Tiantai's rural areas and attracted nearly 3,000 young natives who used to work outside the city to return and set up businesses.

Linhai has been striving to offer one-stop e-commerce services for local companies. The city has been constantly introducing new e-commerce resources, hosting e-commerce-related activities and optimizing services for cross-border e-commerce.