Source: China News Network
Sanming, December 13 (Reporter Lei Chaoliang) In the early winter, the warm sun is shining, in Xiamao Town, Shaxian District, Sanming City, Fujian Province, through the wooden covered bridge "Longfeng Bridge" shaded by green trees, you will arrive at Yubang Village, "the first village of snacks in Shaxian County". The ancient camphor trees, snack folk hall, eco-tourism jogging track and other attractions here attract tourists from the south to the north from time to time to check in and take pictures.
Yubang Village is a village in the old revolutionary area. Photo by Chinanews reporter Lei Chaoliang
"The flat meat we make is all the best hind leg meat, and then put it on a wooden cutting board and knock it by hand more than 2,000 times, so that the guests will eat it more vigorously. Yu Hechuan, 72 years old, was one of the first villagers in Yubang Village to engage in snacks in Shaxian County. Since the end of the 80s of the 20th century, Lao Yu's family, under the leadership of the village party branch, has successively operated Shaxian snacks in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Tianjin, Anhui and other places. Today, his two sons have taken root in Anhui and Hunan respectively to develop Shaxian snacks. The two husbands and wives returned to their hometown and became the inheritors of Shaxian snack making skills, and the life of the family became more and more prosperous.
The picture shows Yu and Chuan. Photo by Chinanews reporter Lei Chaoliang
Shaxian snacks are one of the top ten famous snacks in China, with more than 240 varieties. Yubang Village is the birthplace of Shaxian snacks, and the development process of this "national snack" is recorded in detail in the Shaxian Snack Memory Museum in the village. In the past 30 years, Shaxian snacks have gone out of the mountain gate, entered the market, and grown into a characteristic industry that enriches the people. At present, Shaxian snacks are distributed in 66 countries and regions around the world, with more than 88,000 Shaxian snack stores and more than 3,900 chain standard stores across the country, with an annual output value of more than 50 billion yuan and more than 300,000 jobs.
Zhang Changsong, secretary of the party branch of Yubang Village, introduced that Yubang Village has jurisdiction over 4 natural villages, with a total of 309 households and 1,112 people, and more than 80% of the village's labor force is distributed throughout the country, engaged in the snack industry. "They made money and came back, not only to build a house at home, but also to buy a commercial house in the city. ”
Yubang Village is the birthplace of Shaxian snacks, and the picture shows the Shaxian Snack Memory Museum located in Yubang Village. Photo by Chinanews reporter Lei Chaoliang
Today, Shaxian Snack Industrial Park has gathered 24 enterprises in the upstream and downstream of snack quick-frozen products, semi-finished products, sauce packets and other industries, and dozens of tons of products are distributed to all parts of the country through the cold chain grid every day, with an annual output value of more than 300 million yuan, and the secondary industry cluster continues to grow; Counterpart cooperation opportunities, the development of more than 300 franchise stores in Shanghai, Shanghai's first Shaxian snack college stall officially opened, 33 agricultural products landed on Yangpu fresh and other platforms......
The picture shows the roots-seeking street in Yubang Village. Photo by Chinanews reporter Lei Chaoliang
Not long ago, the 2023 Shaxian Snack Tourism and Cultural Festival and Cross-Strait Food Festival opened in Shaxian County. Shaxian snacks have become an important platform for cross-strait non-governmental exchanges.
"After Shaxian Snacks first landed in Taiwan in 2010, the cooperation with Taiwan's catering industry has become more and more extensive. According to Qiao Jie, vice president of the China Cuisine Association, at present, Shaxian snacks have opened more than 10 branches in Taiwan, and more than 20 festivals and snack cultural exchange activities have been carried out in the two places, and Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan enterprises have invested in more than 20 projects such as Taiwanese cuisine and modern agriculture in Shaxian County.
In recent years, the Shaxian District Government has seized the opportunity of Sanming to build a cross-strait rural integrated development pilot zone and actively promoted cross-strait integrated development. Since 2023, more than 10 activities (events) have been held locally, such as the Fujian-Taiwan Dragon Boat Invitational Tournament, the Cross-Strait Basketball Invitational Tournament, the First Cross-Strait Fire and Rescue Integration Development Seminar, and the "China (Shaxian) Snack Tourism Cultural Festival and Cross-Strait Food Festival". Efforts will be made to build a series of cultural display and exchange carriers such as Shaxian Fujian and Taiwan Food Court, Taiwan Shilin Night Market and Shaxian Food Street, Cross-Strait Snack Culture Exhibition Hall, and Cross-Strait Tea Ceremony Aesthetics Museum, and continue to promote cross-strait snack cultural and sports exchanges and the integrated development of agricultural product raw material industry and food therapy industry.
Wang Renwei, director of the United Front Work Department of the Shaxian District Party Committee, said that he would give full play to the unique role of Shaxian snacks as a "national snack" in the emotional identity and cultural belonging of people on both sides of the strait, use Shaxian snacks as a medium to weave a dense non-governmental exchange network, and promote the high-quality development of the construction of the cross-strait rural integration development pilot zone. (ENDS)