[Explanation] Right now is the ripening season for hydrated persimmons. In Maquangou Village in the hinterland of Zhongtiao Mountain, Pinglu County, Shanxi Province, every household is busy harvesting, peeling, hanging and drying persimmons, and processing special persimmons to become local A beautiful view of the harvest in the countryside.

  [Explanation] From the air, the roofs and trees of Maquangou Village are covered with bunches of persimmons drying.

Villager Ma Wenhong is a large local persimmon grower. Due to the abundant rain this year, his family's 11 mu of persimmon output is about 20,000 catties, which can process about 4,000 catties of persimmons.

  [Concurrent] Ma Wenhong, a villager in Maquaangou Village, Pinglu County, Shanxi Province

  This year there is plenty of rain. I planted 11 mu of persimmons in my house. Look at how big the persimmons are. Ninety percent of them have been picked and hung on the trees to dry.

It is expected that (dried persimmons) will be on the market in another month or so, and some of them have been booked by merchants. I hope to sell them at a good price this year of harvest.

  [Explanation] Ma Wenhong told reporters that every year when the persimmons are ripe for processing in Maquangou Village, the persimmons in the whole village attract many foreigners to visit here, and the price of persimmons has doubled.

  In autumn and winter, 10,000 mu of red leaves usher in the best viewing season.

The continuous peaks and the red leaves all over the mountains constitute a beautiful rural picture that attracts many tourists.

  【Concurrent】Photographer Zhan Zhiqiang

  Maquangou has beautiful mountains and clear water, beautiful scenery, and sweet persimmons.

The hydration persimmon is very good. We have been here for several years and love this place very much.

  [Explanation] Maquangou Village has grown hydrated persimmon for more than 1,300 years.

The persimmons here have no nucleus and can be soluble in water after being processed into dried persimmons, hence the name Hydrated Persimmon.

In recent years, the local area has supported a group of large growers to demonstrate and lead, and through unified packaging, unified standards, unified quality, and unified sales, the industry has achieved scale and branding, and it has become a local professional hydration persimmon planting village.

The income of hydrating persimmon has become a pillar industry for villagers to get rich, and it can increase the income of local villagers by nearly 2 million yuan every year.

  [Concurrent] He Shenghua, First Secretary of Maquangou Village, Pinglu County, Shanxi Province

  Through the demonstration and leadership of large demonstration households, the planting area of ​​hydrated persimmon has reached more than 1,500 acres, forming an industrial development model with red leaves as a medium and persimmon-oriented.

It can be said that Xiaoxiao Shuihua persimmon has brought popularity and wealth to Maquangou, and laid a solid foundation for the next step of rural revitalization.

  Wang Huilin, Quan Yongjun and Li Weiqiang report from Yuncheng, Shanxi

Editor in charge: [Lu Yan]