Cool breeze, golden autumn solstice, and time to chrysanthemum crab fat. On September 17th, the 21st China Gaochun Gucheng Lake Crab Festival with the theme of "Meet Gaochun, 'Crab' Meet Slow City" will be officially opened in Gaochun Water Slow City, at which time, Gaochun District of Nanjing Will welcome visitors from all over the world, and in more than two months, it will provide guests from afar with a feast that integrates food, tourism and investment promotion.
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The scene of the press conference
Gather online and offline to watch a shocking opening ceremony
Gaochun is one of the six major origins of crab (river crab) farming in China, and in December 2020, it was created as the first state-level modern agricultural industrial park with crab farming as the leading industry in China. This year, the area of crab farming in the whole region reached 212,000 mu, and 200 million high-quality crab species were stocked, with an average of 950 per mu. At present, the fifth molting of crabs has begun, the specification quality is significantly better than in previous years, the price is about 10-15% higher than that of the same period, it has matured and has been sold on the market, and the total output can reach 18 million kilograms.
Goseong Lake hairy crab
This year's Crab Festival is divided into two parts: "2021 Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival and the Opening Ceremony of the 21st China Gaochun Gucheng Lake Crab Festival" and "Harvest China Miles - Into Nanjing Gaochun Large-scale Live Broadcast Event", with a number of live broadcast points such as the main venue of the water slow city and the crab market, special attractions and country houses.
New mall helps new business to see a new crab market
Walking into the Tai'an Wei area of Gaochun Chunxi Street, you can see a huge metal crab holding up its crab claws high to welcome past guests, which is the Nanjing Gucheng Lake Crab Market that has just opened to the public, and it is also the largest, most functional and most extensive crab market in East China, becoming a new highland for the development of the Gaochun crab industry.
It is understood that the Nanjing Gucheng Lake Crab Market is built by Gaochun State-owned Assets Group, covering an area of 183 acres and a total construction area of 184,000 square meters. As the core of the project, the crab wholesale and retail trading area can accommodate more than 300 merchants to settle in, and on this basis, it has built a number of functional areas such as characteristic catering area, financial service area, management service area, warehousing and logistics supporting area, commercial supporting area, etc., creating a modern, multi-functional and intelligent integrated market carrier integrating aquatic product trading, warehousing and logistics, catering and leisure, and public services.
Goseong Lake Crab City
At the same time, Nanjing Gucheng Lake Crab Market has also built a big data center and a new marketing operation center, integrating the latest technology and commercial forms of "big data" technology, shared live broadcast room, and co-creation space with the long-standing breeding of Goseong Lake crabs, helping the Gaochun crab industry to become bigger and stronger with new technology and new vision, and injecting a new vitality into the "slow city" Gaochun.
Crabs are used as a medium to invite guests on an unforgettable cultural and commercial journey
The 21st China Gaochun Gucheng Lake Crab Festival Investment Environment Promotion and Major Project Signing Ceremony will be held on the opening ceremony of the Crab Festival. During the Crab Festival, Gaochun will also go to Shenzhen to hold the 2021 Nanjing Gaochun High-end Equipment Manufacturing and Medical Device Industry (Shenzhen) Promotion Conference, and connect with tokyo yunshang in Japan to hold the 2021 Nanjing Medical Device Industrial Park Yunxi Medical Valley (Japan) Online Investment Promotion Conference to promote foreign cooperation and exchanges in the high-end equipment manufacturing industry chain, new medicine and life and health industry chain.
As an "international slow city", Gaochun's landscape interest and idyllic scenery are also a must. The Autumn Gucheng Lake Water Slow City Ecological Resort is built around Goseong Lake, which is the venue for the opening ceremony of the Goseong Lake Crab Festival in recent years, with a thousand acres of flowers, a wetland zoo, crab theme activities... Autumn comes to Gaochun and must come here to punch the clock.
Gaochun Old Street is the epitome of Gaochun folk culture, with ancient buildings with pink walls and green tiles, ancient opera buildings and a variety of delicious food, which will take you back to the Ming and Qing dynasties for a while. Next to the old street is the newly opened Goseong Bay Parent-Child Resort Complex in July this year, bringing together high-end resort hotels, trendy catering, immersive popular pets and other diversified formats. Tangxi International Slow City is China's first international slow city, which can provide tourists with a set of ecological sightseeing, agricultural experience, leisure and entertainment as one of the holiday enjoyment.
During the Crab Festival, many activities such as the International Slow City Marathon, the Slow City Yoga Camping Festival, the Folk Activity Exhibition, and the Crab Feast of the Whole "Crab" Will also be launched.
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Source: Purple Cow News