The steaming Chinese New Year is getting closer and closer as people buy New Year's goods. Big data from the digital freight platform shows that since January, fruits have still been the category of goods with the largest increase in freight volume, an increase of nearly 90% compared with normal days. Bananas, strawberries, sugar oranges, apples, loquats, rambutans, or fresh, crisp and sweet, juicy and slightly sour, or fragrant and soft, each bite contains vitamins and amino acids.
This year, the fruit market also presents a new characteristic, that is, more and more new varieties are listed to grab "fresh".
Grab the "fresh" market The "new" taste in the fruit market
Early in the morning, walking into the largest local fruit wholesale market in Kunming, there is an endless stream of cars coming and going, and many merchants are so busy in front of the cold storage that they can't even take care of breakfast.
In this year's fruit market, many new varieties with local characteristics have become bestsellers. Not only that, local bird's nest fruit, sea cucumber fruit, and tiger fruit are also sought after by young people with their peculiar appearance and low sugar content.
In addition to these exotic local varieties, fruits that used to be imported can now be mass-produced locally. Avocados from Menglian County, Pu'er City, are placed in a prominent position in the market. Different from avocados in Chile, Mexico, and Peru, locally produced avocados sell well all over the country with their delicate and soft texture without black silk, and irreplaceable soft and glutinous feeling.
Kunming Jinma Zhengchang Fruit Wholesale Market Management Office Director Bi Jianwei: domestic fruits, this year is a big year for integration, its output is relatively high, the current trading volume, now like we are in the southwest region is the largest fruit market, its radiation is also wide, like the sales volume, up to about 800,000 tons per year.
"Foreign fruits" float across the ocean to enrich the Chinese table
During this year's Spring Festival, consumers' eyes not only focused on domestic goods, but also on "top-notch goods" from across the ocean. Fruit consumption is undergoing an upgrade of "Chinese and Western, new and old". Fruit farms across the ocean are also busy for the Chinese New Year.
At this fruit export company in Victoria, Australia, a batch of rouge queen plums is being packed and will arrive in Shanghai and Guangzhou, China, 12 hours later.
Director of Operations, Sharp Fruit Company Australia: We are busy supplying the Chinese New Year market, and our Queen of Rouge plum has a sugar content of 17.6%, which is very sweet and very popular with Chinese consumers.
During the Chinese New Year, a large number of orders from China poured into Australian farms, and the number of orders for Rouge Queen Lee increased by nearly 50%. Nearly 200 workers have been recruited locally, working in two shifts to meet the supply of the Chinese market. Flights have also increased from two a day to four a day.
In Shanghai, a batch of Spanish fresh persimmons weighing 15.8 tons has completed customs clearance from Yangshan Port in Shanghai, adding a touch of festive atmosphere to the upcoming New Year. This is the first batch of Spanish persimmons to enter the Chinese market since the mainland signed the relevant protocol with Spain in April last year.
Fruit importers told reporters that Spain is the world's largest exporter of persimmons, with an annual export volume of more than 200,000 tons.
During the Spring Festival this year, imported fruits are more abundant on the people's table. According to the data, in 2023, China will newly allow 146 kinds of sub-high-quality agricultural and food products from 51 countries and regions to enter the Chinese market, in addition to Spanish persimmons, new fruits such as Philippine durian and Benin pineapple have also entered the Chinese market, and French soft dates and kiwifruit, Egyptian mangoes, etc. will start their journey to China one after another.
Editor: Li Geli
Source: CCTV News