Top news reporter Zhang Zhizhong correspondent Wang Ningqiao
On April 18th, the 7th China Tongbai Orchid Expo was grandly opened in the National Orchid Planting Exchange Center in Dahe Town, Tongbai County. Li Weidong, director of the Horticulture Research Institute of the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences and vice president of the Orchid Branch of the China Flower Association, Wang Zhihao, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of the trade union of Zhengzhou Normal University, Wang Juyou, president of the Nanyang Orchid Association, Lu Chengxuan, president of the Korean Hui Orchid Association, Yang Haoning, Ma Bin, Ma Zheyu, Li Faqing, Guqin, Ma Qing and Fu Xingwei, leaders of Tongbai County, attended the opening ceremony.
With the theme of "Orchid Fragrance and Elegant Rhyme, Visiting the Great Beauty of Tongbai", more than 3,000 people from South Korea and various provinces in China, including the heads of orchid associations, merchants, and orchid friends, gathered at the National Orchid Planting Exchange Center in Dahe Town to appreciate, appreciate, buy, and discuss orchids.
Comrade Yang Haoning, deputy secretary of the Tongbai County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony and expressed his welcome and gratitude to all the leaders, guests and friends attending the opening ceremony. Li Weidong, Wang Zhihao and Lu Chengxuan delivered speeches at the opening ceremony respectively, congratulating the opening of the 7th Lanexpo. The relevant leaders and guests who participated in the opening ceremony presented awards to the orchids that won the special gold award and gold medal respectively.
Comrade Yang Haoning, deputy secretary of the Tongbai County Committee of the Communist Party of China, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony
The opening ceremony also held a project signing ceremony, Tongbai County Dahe Town Government and Zhengzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou Dayou Tiancheng Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and Hangzhou Yuanmao New Building Materials Co., Ltd. signed the "Deepening School-Local Cooperation, Jointly Building Orchid Germplasm Resource Bank Agreement", "Dahe Town Annual Output of 100,000 Tons of High-quality Planting Materials and Cultural and Creative Orchid Processing and Construction Project Contract" and "Dahe Town Annual Output of 300,000 Tons of Modified Potassium Silicate Processing and Construction Project Contract", Korea Orchid Association and Tongbai County Orchid Association signed the " Strategic Agreement on Exchange and Cooperation of New Orchid Varieties between China and South Korea", the signing and implementation of these projects will further promote the high-quality development of the orchid industry and economy in Dahe Town.
Dahe Town is located in the shallow mountainous area in the north of the county, with a natural landform of "nine mountains, half water and half fields", with a forest coverage rate of more than 90%, which is suitable for the survival and reproduction of orchids, and is the birthplace of Dabie Mountain Orchid. Since 2023, Dahe Town has made every effort to promote the high-quality development of the orchid industry, continuously created new advantages in the orchid industry, and successfully created the only national 3A-level tourist attraction with the theme of orchid culture, "Orchid Town", and a leisure and sightseeing park in Henan Province.
Dahe Town in Shifosi Village "National Orchid Planting Exchange Center" to establish an orchid characteristic industrial base, covers an area of about 100,000 square meters, has built 65 standardized orchid sheds, is building more than 20 new orchid sheds, built an orchid expo exhibition hall, under construction 3,000 square meters of orchid germplasm resources cultivation research and development center a, supporting the construction of parking lots and related public facilities, orchid trading market covers an area of 15,000 square meters, trading on the 16th and 26th each month, South Korea, Japan, Orchid merchants and orchid lovers from Taiwan, China and other places have come to exchange and learn from orchids, and more Korean merchants are stationed in the Orchid Rural Revitalization Industrial Park in Dahe Town all the year round, and their popularity and reputation at home and abroad have been greatly improved.
Innovate the industrial development model of "association + base + cooperative + farmer", take the association as the axis, the base and the cooperative to create a trading market, and the development form of farmers' courtyard economy, which has driven more than 4,000 people engaged in orchid planting in Dahe Town, and the annual transaction volume of orchids in the town has reached more than 250 million yuan. It has established an orchid industry-university-research base with Zhengzhou Normal University, the first undergraduate college engaged in orchid research in Henan Province, and a 3,000-square-meter orchid germplasm resource cultivation and research and development center under construction, which will bring new support and inject new kinetic energy into the future development and growth of the orchid industry in Dahe Town and even the county through scientific and technological empowerment, further improve the ornamental value and medicinal value of orchids, and bring new opportunities for the construction of "Orchid Town" in Dahe Town.
The source water of the Huai River, Tongbai Mountain is on the orchid. With the help of the spring breeze of the 7th China Tongbai Orchid Expo, Dahe Town will further increase the pace of agricultural and cultural tourism development with the integration of orchid tourism and the common development of rural revitalization, and strive to build a national well-known orchid town brand and a national well-known orchid exchange center.