Zhongxin Network Wulanchabu April 3 Title: Rural Revitalization of Counties and Towns in Northern China: Potato Towns Let the People Find New Keys to Getting Rich
China News Network reporter Li Aiping
79443 yuan. In the face of the media, Chen Shui held a thick bundle of renminbi and excitedly did not know what to say.
This is a day ago, at a meeting he held in Shangdu County, Wulanchabu City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the county seat of northern China, to get the income from growing potato seed greenhouses, and it was a local potato enterprise that paid for him.
The picture shows an aerial picture of Shangdu County. Photo by Hu Zhongjie
The villager from shangdu county lama board poverty alleviation industrial base said: "I planted 2 potato and potato seed greenhouses, and the average income of a greenhouse is more than 30,000 yuan. ”
"Planting potato and potato seed greenhouses, we villagers are walking on the road to Ben Xiaokang, and we are ready to do a big job this year." Chen Shui told reporters.
Yang Hongjuan, a major local potato seed grower, said in her speech on the same day: "The local introduction of potato leading enterprises allows us to earn money without going far. ”
Wulanchabu City, which is known as the "potato capital of China" by the outside world, has been proud of in recent years than the potato town being built in Shangdu County.
According to the Shangdu County Government, the locally declared Juhong Potato Town Project was selected into the project database in November 2019 with the consent of the "Thousand Enterprises and Thousand Towns Engineering Office" jointly launched by the National Development and Reform Commission and other 6 departments, which is also the first project selected for the project database in the potato industry of Ulanchabu City.
Liu Yang, a local citizen, told reporters: "The creation of potato characteristic towns has made this place look new, not only has a quite grand hotel built here, but also the local streets have the taste of a small city." ”
The reporter noted that the gravel road of the county more than a decade ago has now become an asphalt road. At the beginning of the opening of the shopping mall built in the county last year, a number of well-known domestic singers were invited to perform, which also made the local people feel the spiritual satisfaction.
"In the shopping plaza, some domestic and international brand clothing, cosmetics, etc. are readily available, and there are cinemas, restaurants, billiard halls and other facilities in the square." Goryeo, a local resident, said: "The taste in the square is very high-end, and it is not inferior to other counties in Inner Mongolia." ”
According to official information, the potato town with a planned investment of 1.855 billion yuan, the core area is 5.5 square kilometers, the construction area is 8178 acres, and the official and enterprises are currently planning to use the form of online red live broadcast to enhance the local potato industry on a larger scale.
To build a potato town, where does Shangdu County come from?
The reporter learned from the Shangdu County Government that everything stemmed from the introduction of the county's largest potato detoxified seed potato production enterprise 15 years ago - Inner Mongolia Heathan Potato Seed Industry Co., Ltd. The company's potato seeds are currently exported to 6 countries, including Kazakhstan.
The county also introduced Blue Weston Potato (Inner Mongolia) Co., Ltd., one of the world's largest suppliers of frozen potato fries and sweet potato products, in 2014.
According to the materials of the Shangdu County Government, at present, local enterprises such as the Kedu Bureau Industry Co., Ltd. and the Fulongtai Bureau Industry Co., Ltd. in the county have formed a potato industry pattern integrating potato acquisition, base planting, large-scale processing, modern storage, and socialized sales, and the town's characteristic industries are distinctive.
Ying Hongju, head of the local enterprise Inner Mongolia Juhong Industrial Group Co., Ltd., which is responsible for the overall construction of potato towns, told reporters: "In order to do a good job in this big article of potato towns, in the future, we will also build apartment areas for senior experts and senior managers of the potato industry here, and build a characteristic town industrial talent residential area and a potato museum exhibition center. ”
"We will make use of the advantages of the potato industry in Shangdu County to build a potato industry technology, processing demonstration platform and a whole industry chain service platform, and build a characteristic town that integrates scientific and technological demonstration, agricultural production, potato processing, e-commerce logistics, health and wellness, and eco-tourism." Ying Hongju said: "These tasks will be gradually carried out. ”
Gai Zhiyi, an economist in Inner Mongolia, believes that As a demonstration base for China's potato industry and an emergency supply base for agricultural products in the capital, Shangdu County, with the help of potato towns, can not only enable farmers to get rid of poverty and become well-off, but also find a sustainable path in the context of rural revitalization.
"The local people can hope to find the golden key to get rich through the potato town, and the yam eggs here are also expected to truly become golden eggs." Gai Zhiyi said. (End)
Source: China News Network