"You can go without meat for three days, and you can't go without bread for a day", a proverb vividly explains the status of naan in the lives of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang. In Xinjiang, naan is an indispensable traditional specialty. Walnut buns, rose buns, badan buns, sesame buns... There are many recipes for naan, and the tastes and shapes are rich and diverse. Walking in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, you can see the figure of the naan everywhere, and the large and small naan industrial park is full of vitality. As a characteristic business card of Xinjiang, the small bread is gradually growing into a large industry that supports people's livelihood.
Kneading, rolling, tying flowers, pasting bread, taking bread... In the huge production hall of the Aksu Naan Industrial Park, the pits are arranged in an orderly manner, and there are four or five staff members around each naan pit working closely together, and the scene of thousands of people beating at the same time is quite spectacular. The fiery production scene is a vivid portrayal of the vigorous development of Xinjiang's naan industry. As of June this year, Xinjiang has built more than 60 various types of naan industrial parks, more than 500 professional production and processing enterprises, and more than 30,000 operational naan pits. At the same time, the naan industry has played an active role in absorbing employment and helping to increase income, after more than 100,000 families in the region achieved poverty alleviation through naaning. The effect of industrial parks from scratch, the number of enterprises from small to large, the industrial scale from small to large, and the butterfly change of the naan industry has continuously highlighted the effect of helping rural revitalization.
The development of the naan industry shows the great potential to tap the new growth points of traditional industries. In the past, roasted bread producers were distributed in the streets and alleys of Xinjiang, and the production was relatively dispersed, the cost was higher, and the anti-risk ability was relatively poor. The establishment of the naan cooperative and the naan industrial park provides the naan division with venues, equipment, raw materials, orders, etc., more advanced equipment, more reliable security, and a more stable source of customers, so that they can get more benefits with lower labor intensity. Not only that, the pace of coordinated development of the naan industry and modern agriculture, equipment manufacturing, cultural tourism and other related industries has been accelerating, and the local exploration of new paths such as "industry + culture + tourism" has laid the foundation for building brands and extending the industrial chain. Practice has proved that by innovating the development model and accelerating the transformation and upgrading, the traditional industries can be rejuvenated.
Transformation and upgrading, green development is the key. Achieving the green development of traditional industries is a requirement for sustainable development and also reflects the demands of local people. Some tanners who moved into the industrial park said that the electrified pit only takes more than 10 minutes to reach the temperature of the previous soil pit burning for more than 1 hour, and it does not take light to get up at dawn to burn firewood and coal. From the former digging pits and earthen pits to the current electric pits and natural gas pits, from the small workshop-type production with green smoke to the production workshops that can be sightseeing and tourism, the green development of the naan industry, while solving the problems of pollution of the environment and the difficulty of temperature control in the traditional naan pits, let the naan workers bid farewell to the smoky working environment. Strict hygiene standards, standardized feeding process, and stable investment in research and development have further improved the quality of naan.
Industry is the foundation, enriching the people is the key. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed at the Third Central Xinjiang Work Forum: "It is necessary to promote the strengthening of industrial efficiency and transformation and upgrading, cultivate and expand Xinjiang's characteristic advantageous industries, and drive the local people to increase their income and become rich." "The growing naan industry has written a vivid footnote for Xinjiang to promote the integrated development of the first, second and third industries and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system." Further cultivating characteristic advantageous industries, so that a piece of fragrant bread becomes a "golden cake" to get rich and increase income, rows of fruitful fruit trees become the "cash cows" of local farmers, magnificent natural scenery and unique folk culture enter the "punch card list" of tourists, we will certainly be able to unite the development of synergy, form a agglomeration effect, and create a new situation in Xinjiang's economic and social development.