The online platform enables children ages 5 to 16 to practice playing instruments including the piano, violin, accordion as well as the traditional Chinese guqin, a seven-stringed instrument similar to the zither.

Violin manufacturing, home care services among ways out of hardship in hitherto economically challenged countiesWhen a group of farmers from Queshan county, Henan province, quit planting crops and came to Beijing for better incomes in the 1980s, little did they know it was the start of a violin making industry that would not only help farmers emerge from poverty, but also turn Queshan into the country's leading manufacturing hub for the stringed instruments.

Some of them started off in violin manufacturing studios and had positive experiences.

Others even started their own violin making businesses after years of learning.

With more people from Queshan moving to Beijing and working in the violin industry, the local government began to take notice.

In 2015, Queshan authorities launched a series of preferential policies to attract Beijing-based luthiers back to their home county, relocate or start violin making businesses.

The goal was to make Queshan China's leading violin manufacturing hub, boost the local economy and create more job opportunities.

Queshan now has about 102 violin manufacturing facilities that provide jobs for over 2,600 people.

Zhou Minliang, a senior researcher at the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the growing violin manufacturing industry in Queshan is becoming a pillar of local economic development by offering more job opportunities and generating more tax revenue.

Zhou said that spurred by the growing violin making industry, more manufacturers may be attracted to set up units in Queshan and thus form a relatively complete industry cluster, which is important for regional development as this model helps source components more efficiently and increases local companies' market influence.

Zhou added that Queshan's violin industry also faces challenges in terms of how to upgrade and transform to high-quality development.

He said many violin makers in Queshan are original equipment manufacturers－companies that produce parts or whole items that are marketed by other manufacturers－and a large portion of their products go to value-added resellers who take a big portion of total profit from the violins.

Some 2,600 farmers in Queshan, a small county in Central China's Henan province, are helping fulfill the dreams of millions of violin lovers across the world even though they know very little about music.

""Actually, many people of my age started their career in violin manufacturing companies in Beijing through introductions from Queshan natives.

Many from the county had started big violin manufacturing businesses in Beijing and they prefer to have workers from their hometown in their factories," Jiang said.

The history dates back to the 1980s when a batch of farmers from Queshan quit working on crops and came to Beijing for jobs in violin handcrafting studios.

In that year, over 60 luthiers came back to Queshan and started their own violin businesses.

To date, Queshan is home to 102 violin manufacturing factories, providing job opportunities to over 2,600 people, the local government said.

Zhou Minliang, a senior researcher at the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the landing of leading violin manufacturing companies in Queshan county has promoted regional economic development, created jobs and generated more tax revenues.

It may also attract more downstream manufacturers to set up units in Queshan to meet the demand of violin manufacturing companies, said Zhou.

Many violin manufacturing companies in Queshan are still original equipment manufacturers, making component products or finished items which will be labeled under someone else's name.

The local government's offer of corresponding services such as cheaper infrastructure and supportive policies will facilitate the transformation of violin manufacturing companies to high-quality development and increase their brand's influence, Zhou added.

It may hard to believe that about 2,600 farmers in a small county of Henan, Central China are actually the dreamweaver of millions of violin lovers across the world.

Their journey dates back to the 1980s, when a batch of farmers from Queshan quit working on crops and came to Beijing to work in violin handcrafting studios to make more money.

Benefiting from this momentum, Chinese startups, such as online music tutoring platform VIP Peilian, are helping more users to access one-on-one tuition while playing musical instruments including the piano, violin and guqin, a traditional Chinese stringed instrument.