2021-04-28 13:10:33 GMT2021-04-28 21:10:33(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
YINCHUAN, April 28 (Xinhua) During the Spring Festival holiday, Hua Jing, 25, shuttled around caring for and spending time with feline friends in Yinchuan, the capital city of northwest China s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
Her new furry companions, however, did not belong to Hua s friends but to complete strangers online who she met through Xianyu, a consumer-to-consumer marketplace spun from Alibaba s Taobao.
The business, which mainly depends on the kindness of strangers, was developed by a young urbanite hailing from central China s Hubei Province, once hard hit by COVID-19.
Hua, being a cat addict herself, came up with the idea of helping cat owners when they needed to take holiday and leave their pets behind.
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