Chinanews.com, Ulanchabu, April 3, title: The revitalization of counties and villages in northern China: Potato towns let people find a new key to wealth
China News Service reporter Li Aiping
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In the face of the media, Chen Shui held a thick bundle of RMB excitedly not knowing what to say.
This is a meeting he held a day ago in Shangdu County, Ulanchabu City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a northern county seat in China. He received the income from potato planting in the potato seed greenhouses. The money was paid to him by a local potato company.
The picture shows an aerial view of Shangdu County.
Photo by Hu Zhongjie
This villager from the Lamaban Poverty Alleviation Industrial Base in Shangdu County said: "I planted two potato seedling greenhouses, and the average income from one greenhouse was more than 30,000 yuan."
"Potatoes are grown in greenhouses, and we villagers are walking on the road to Xiaokang, and we are planning to do a big job this year." Chen Shui told reporters.
Yang Hongjuan, a large local potato planter, said in his speech that day: "The introduction of leading potato companies in the local area allows us to earn money without going far. Thank you very much."
Ulanqab, known as the "Potato Capital of China" by the outside world, is proud of the potato town being built in Shangdu County in recent years.
According to news from the Shangdu County Government, the Juhong Potato Town project declared locally was approved by the "Thousand Enterprises and Thousand Towns Engineering Office" jointly launched by the National Development and Reform Commission and other 6 departments in November 2019 and was selected into the project library. This is also Ulan The potato industry of Qab City is the first project selected into the project library.
Local people, Liu Yang, told reporters: "The creation of a potato town has given it a brand new look. Not only does it have a grand hotel built here, but the local streets already have the taste of a small city."
The reporter noticed that the gravel road in the county more than ten years ago has now become an asphalt road.
The shopping plaza built in the county last year opened its doors, and many well-known domestic singers were invited to perform, and the local people also felt spiritual satisfaction.
"In the shopping plaza, some domestic and international brand clothing, cosmetics, etc. are all available, and there are also theaters, restaurants, billiards and other facilities in the plaza." Local people Gao Li said: "The taste in the plaza is very high-end, not inferior to it. Other counties in Inner Mongolia."
The picture shows an aerial view of Shangdu County.
Photo by Hu Zhongjie
Official information shows that the potato town, which plans to invest 1.855 billion yuan, has a core area of 5.5 square kilometers and a construction area of 8,178 acres. At present, officials and companies are planning to use online celebrity live broadcasts to allow the local potato industry to gain a greater scope. Promote.
Where is Shangdu County's confidence in building a potato town?
The reporter learned from the Shangdu County Government that it all originated from the introduction of the country's largest virus-free potato seed potato production company-Inner Mongolia Xisen Potato Seed Industry Co., Ltd. 15 years ago.
The company’s potato seeds have been exported to 6 countries including Kazakhstan.
The county also introduced in 2014, one of the world's largest suppliers of frozen potato fries and sweet potato products-Lan Weston Potato Industry (Inner Mongolia) Co., Ltd.
According to the government materials of Shangdu County, local enterprises such as Kedu Department Industry Co., Ltd. in the county and Fulongtai Department Industry Co., Ltd. in the county have formed a collection of potato purchase, base planting, large-scale processing, modern storage, The potato industry structure is integrated with socialized sales, and the small town has a distinctive industry.
Ying Hongju, the head of Inner Mongolia Juhong Industrial Group Co., Ltd., a local enterprise responsible for building the potato town as a whole, told reporters: "In order to do a good job in the potato town, we will build senior experts and senior experts in the potato industry here in the future. Administrative staff apartment area, construction of characteristic town industrial talent residential area, potato museum exhibition center, etc."
"We will make use of the advantages of Shangdu County's potato industry to build a potato industry technology, processing demonstration platform, and a full-industry chain service platform, and build an integrated technology demonstration, agricultural production, potato processing, e-commerce logistics, health preservation, and eco-tourism. It is a characteristic town that is suitable for business, travel, living, and raising.” Ying Hongju said: “These tasks will be carried out gradually.”
Inner Mongolian economist Gai Zhiyi believes that Shangdu County, a demonstration base for China’s potato industry and an emergency supply base for agricultural products in the capital, with the help of potato towns in the region, can not only help farmers get rid of poverty and become prosperous, it also finds the background of rural revitalization A sustainable path for the country.
"The local people are expected to find the golden key to wealth through Potato Town. The yam eggs here are also expected to truly become golden eggs." Gai Zhiyi said.
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