Meishan, Sichuan: citrus industry promotes rural revitalization and regional economic development

The central rural work conference pointed out that we should focus on industries to promote rural development, deeply promote the integration of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries, vigorously develop county industries to enrich the people, promote the green development of agriculture and rural areas, and let farmers share more industrial value-added benefits. Recently, the 19th China food safety conference was held in Beijing, and the 2021 Meishan spring orange Beijing promotion conference was held. Zhao Chunjiang, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, director and chief expert of the national agricultural informatization engineering technology research center, Zhao Huajun, director of the emergency and Evaluation Department of the Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) quality and safety supervision department of the Ministry of agriculture and rural areas, Zhu Changxue, vice president of China Food Industry Association, President and chief editor of China food safety newspaper, Xiong Ying, vice chairman of Meishan CPPCC, Sichuan Province, Luo Zhijun, Deputy Secretary General of Meishan Municipal People’s government, and more than 200 guests and representatives attending the China Food Safety Conference gathered together to discuss the development of Meishan spring orange and other industries, and help Meishan regional economic development and Rural Revitalization.

“You must remember the good scenery in a year. It’s orange and green.” “Buy a small garden and plant three hundred oranges.” This is the great writer Su Dongpo’s praise for citrus and the historical record of citrus production in Meishan. At present, Meishan spring orange has been successfully registered as a national geographical indication certification trademark. “Meishan spring orange is not only the symbol of Dongpo culture, but also the symbol of healthy ecology and Rural Revitalization.” At the promotion meeting, Luo Zhijun introduced the situation of Meishan spring orange industry.

“The high quality of Meishan spring orange is inseparable from the strong support of Meishan municipal Party committee and Meishan municipal government, and also benefits from the progress of agricultural science and technology.” Zhao Chunjiang said that he had actually investigated the development of Meishan spring orange industry. Meishan green ecological pest prevention and control technology and scientific, refined water and fertilizer management are an important link to create Meishan spring orange with sufficient water and good taste. “Do a good job in fruit grading and pricing according to different grades to ensure high quality and high price. Take the road of \’field + workshop\’, do a good job in fruit intensive processing in combination with industrial development, further extend the industrial chain and enhance the added value of spring oranges.” Zhao Chunjiang said.

Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) quality and safety are produced and managed. Zhao Huajun said that Meishan has good ecological environment, excellent climate conditions and unique advantages of large-scale planting, making Meishan spring orange a gold lettered signboard of “Sichuan fruit”. He stressed that Meishan spring orange industry has laid a solid support for consolidating and expanding the key achievements in poverty alleviation and helping rural revitalization, and quality and safety supervision has “escorted” the all-round and high-quality development of the citrus industry.

According to Zhu Chang’s theory, in 2018, it opened the prelude to the joint organization of China food safety conference with Sichuan Provincial Department of agriculture and Meishan municipal government. This year, the two sides jointly hosted the 19th China food safety conference, which is the hope of China’s food safety undertakings.

The national township express outlets have effectively opened up the end cycle of Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) upward and rural consumption upgrading, and the digital services represented by e-commerce have sunk to the countryside, injecting new impetus into Rural Revitalization and rural economy. In 2021, the sender of the 100th express delivery in China is Zhang Furong, a returned entrepreneurship college student in Meishan. As a representative of the new economy of digital agriculture, she made an exchange speech to provide experience and reference for accelerating the deep integration of digital agriculture and modern agriculture and exploring the development path and model of digital agriculture.

A spring orange will expand an industry and enrich the people. According to statistics, at present, Meishan has a citrus planting area of 1.05 million mu, including 88000 mu of late maturing citrus. It has successively introduced 50 excellent new varieties, independently bred 5 new varieties such as Daya citrus, macdou and Meihong navel orange, and took the lead in formulating 8 local standards for main varieties such as unknown fire, Chunjian and Ehime. The citrus output value of the whole city has reached 12 billion yuan, driving the per capita income of millions of employees to increase by tens of thousands of yuan, It has become a real primary industry to help agriculture and increase income.

(source: Science and technology daily)

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