Source: People's Daily - Jilin Channel Original draft
Changchun, October 21 (People's Daily Online) -- In the autumn of October, in the rural revitalization support counter in the Siping service area of Jilin Expressway Group, local eggs, fungus, fresh corn, rice and other characteristic agricultural and sideline products were of excellent quality and affordable prices, which attracted many past drivers and passengers to buy.
Various agricultural and sideline products in the rural revitalization support counter are being sold. People's Daily Photo by Li Siyue
"These agricultural and sideline products are sold by some elderly people in nearby villages, and the service area not only provides us with a platform for sales, but also broadens the sales channels for these agricultural and sideline products, which can sell for about 200 yuan per day!" Yang Jun, a villager in Yongle Village, Chengdong Township, Tiedong District, Siping City, Jilin Province, said that the staff in the service area not only helped sell, but also provided them with hot water and lunch.
Staff in the service area are helping to sell produce. People's Daily Photo by Li Siyue
In order to help local households in need, Jigao Service Area Management Co., Ltd. explores a new path for the revitalization of traffic and rural areas, combined with the construction of "local characteristics of service areas" and "agricultural products in service areas", and follows the principle of "no admission fee, security deposit, management fee, and no threshold" in the highway service area of the province.
Rural revitalization support counters. People's Daily Photo by Li Siyue
"Since the Siping Service Area Rural Revitalization Help Exhibition and Sales Zone was opened for more than a month, the cumulative sales volume has reached 7600 yuan." During the eleventh period, the daily flow of people can reach 30,000 or 40,000 people, and the agricultural products in the poverty alleviation counter have been sold for 4300 yuan. Sun Guodong, director of the Siping Regional Management Department of Jilin Jigao Service Area Management Co., Ltd., introduced.
"At present, we have set up 168 exhibition and sales zones in 83 service areas with conditions in the province, and have introduced more than 70 kinds of local special commodities such as soybeans, pancakes, rice, millet, honey, fungus, mushrooms, etc. in Jilin Province, with a sales amount of more than 230,000 yuan, and directly absorbed more than 200 people from villages along the line." Wang Peng, deputy general manager of Jilin Jigao Service Area Management Co., Ltd., said.
The drivers and passengers select agricultural and sideline products at the help counter. People's Daily Photo by Li Siyue
It is understood that during this year's "May Day" and "Eleventh" festivals, the service area took advantage of the factors such as the free traffic flow of the highway on holidays and the sharp increase in passenger flow, and held various activities such as poverty alleviation commodity exhibitions in dehui, Fusong, Jingyu, Qinghe, Jiaohe and other service areas to further broaden the sales channels of local agricultural products.