BEIJING, Jan. 14 (Xinhua Silk Road) -- In Caowa farmers market of Linshu County in Linyi City, east China, local grid operator is gratifying the increasing power demand of the bustling rural marketplace with reliable power services.
Popular among Chinese tourists since mid-2025, the farmers market that opens at regular dates of each month now teems with over 2,000 stalls for local snacks, fruits, roasted nuts and seeds, and grains of different types.
Compared with the past, such a large number of stalls mean demand for diversified power services, especially when surging visitor flows in recent months added to needs for pre-service, charging service, etc.
Covering 11.33 hectares of areas, the Caowa farmers market with an over 50-year-old history is a sensation now and its peak power consumption period within a day usually lasts till late at night, said Kan Qilong, a marketing department staff of Linshu Power Supply Company.
To better serve stall owners and visitors, the local grid operator put in place 1.16 kilometers of 10kV double-circuit transmission lines and a new transformer there, enabling development of the rural market with reliable power supply.
Via installing shared sockets, stall owners in Caowa farmers market can access electricity supply via scanning related QR codes, pay electricity fees by volume and enjoy real-time settlement.
As Chen Jianghua, a local beef soup stall owner introduced, these sockets are easy and safe for stall owners there to use as they are water-proof and leak-proof.
In the future, parent of the Linshu County grid operator, Linyi Power Supply Company will continue to offer diversified services to satisfy power demand from rural marketplaces and other sectors to bolster the rural economy.
Located in Linshu, a county famed for wickerwork in east China's Shandong Province, Caowa farmers market once drew more than 100,000 offline visitors.
Currently, it has been a vibrant consumption-boosting engine for Linshu County as its cloud market viewership topped 400 million and visitors from nearby Chinese provinces drove there to buy farm produce and others at reasonable prices.
(Edited by Duan Jing with Xinhua Silk Road, duanjing@xinhua.org)
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