China News Service, Beijing, August 19 (Reporter Xia Bin) After years of rapid development, the total output value of China's crayfish industry exceeded 400 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) in 2019. However, due to the impact of the 2020 epidemic, that year The total output value of the industry was 349.07 billion yuan, a decrease of 15.07% from 2019.

　　As the largest crayfish farming province, Hubei Province’s crayfish production accounts for about half of the country. The development of the crayfish industry has become an important development path for the revitalization of Hubei’s rural areas. However, China’s How should the crayfish important town fight a "turning over" in 2021?

　　"The development of the crayfish industry is undoubtedly important to the revitalization of Hubei’s rural areas. However, as a highly seasonal industry, summer is the peak season for crayfish sales. How to upgrade the industry to make crayfish sell for longer and longer periods Issues that the industry needs to think about.” said Li Deping, a senior engineer at the Aquatic Products Technology Promotion Station in Jingzhou District, Jingzhou City, who recently participated in the “Hubei Crayfish Industry Revitalization Seminar” online.

　　As a shrimp farmer in Hubei for many years, Dong Haibo turned ordinary crayfish into "net celebrity delicacies."

"We sell not only products, but also services, technology and professionalism." Dong Haibo introduced that on the production side, it uses compound farming to increase the utilization rate of shrimp ponds; on the sales side, it makes crayfish into semi-finished products. , Refrigerated and sold as ready-to-eat products, thus continuing the value of crayfish throughout the year.

　　Wu Faqiong, a "post-80s" shrimp farmer from Jingzhou District, Jingzhou City, also shared her entrepreneurial road of shrimp and rice. Through the "shrimp and rice symbiosis" production method, crayfish promotes rice cultivation, which can organically make up for the small The problem of seasonal income from lobsters has improved the annual benefits and also increased the income of surrounding farmers.

　　Crayfish has been sold throughout the year, and farmers’ income has become more diversified. However, Tao Zhonghu, chief engineer of the Qianjiang Agricultural Development Center, raised another question. Due to the strong seasonality of agriculture and the small scale of market entities, lack of funds has always been a problem. Problems that plague shrimp farmers and shrimp merchants in strengthening the industrial chain.

　　Qianjiang City and Jingzhou District, which are important areas for the crayfish industry in Hubei, have recently announced that they will cooperate with the Internet Commercial Bank to support the leaders in the revitalization of the crayfish industry.

Eligible shrimp farmers will receive annual interest-free loans provided by online commercial banks to assist their production and operation, and encourage leaders to play an exemplary role and drive people around them to get rich together.

　　Hubei shrimp farmer Xie Xiaozhong is the first group of rural revitalization leaders to receive interest-free loans.

In August this year, the risk of the spread of the epidemic in many places across the country increased. Some areas of Hubei have slow sales of crayfish and shrimp farmers have problems such as funding gaps. This has been plagued by Xie Xiaozhong.

　　He bluntly said: "Shrimp farming takes place every year, and funds are inseparable from production, processing, and sales. I plan to use this year-round interest-free loan from the Internet Commercial Bank to solve the current predicament and lead the team to explore Create a road for deep processing of lobster from the field to semi-finished products."

　　"As a technology bank, we hope that through digital finance, farmers in more industries can obtain financial support and play their role as a benchmark in rural revitalization," said Jin Xiaolong, chairman of the Internet Commercial Bank.

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