China News Service, Lanzhou, March 26 (Reporter Ding Si) On March 26, the eighth meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th Gansu Provincial People's Congress was held in Lanzhou. Li Wenrui, deputy director of the Gansu Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, introduced the province's rural construction situation and said that at the end of last year, the province's advantageous and characteristic industries reached 44.36 million acres, and the area and output of artificially planted Chinese medicinal materials and plateau summer vegetables ranked first in the country. Potatoes ranked first in the country. , apple production both rank third in the country.
On August 25, 2020, farmers were picking plateau summer cabbage in Minqin, Gansu Province. (File photo) Photo by Yin Chunyong
The local vegetable growing area in Gansu has a cool climate, sufficient sunshine, and a large temperature difference between day and night. Compared with other vegetable growing areas, this area has a high altitude and high organic content, so the vegetables produced in Gansu in summer are called "plateau summer vegetables." Its categories include cauliflower, cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, bamboo shoots, celery, Chinese cabbage, baby cabbage, kale, carrot and other varieties.
Every summer and autumn, temperatures in the south are high, meteorological disasters occur frequently, and vegetable yields are low and quality is poor. However, this is when a large number of summer vegetables are on the market in the Gansu Plateau, which just makes up for the vegetable supply gap in the southeastern coastal areas.
Talking about the construction of Hemei rural areas in the province, Li Wenrui said that industry is its core support. The province insists on gathering strength to strengthen leaders, replenishing chains, developing business formats, and building brands, and promotes the successful conclusion of the three-year doubling action. The characteristic industries show a good trend of optimizing structure, expanding scale, improving efficiency, and clustering development. The six characteristic industries of "cattle, sheep, vegetables, fruits, potatoes and medicine" have achieved full coverage of the country's advantageous industrial clusters, the processing and conversion rate of agricultural products has reached 60%, and the output value of the entire industry chain has reached more than 579 billion yuan.
According to the meeting, leisure agriculture and rural tourism in Gansu are booming, with 21 rural tourism model counties and 200 rural model villages for cultural tourism revitalization established. The province's added value of primary industry increased by 5.9%, ranking 4th in the country; the per capita disposable income of rural residents reached 13,131 yuan, an increase of 7.9%, and the growth rate ranked 4th nationwide compared with 2022.
Regarding future development, Li Wenrui proposed that actions to improve quality and efficiency should be used as a new engine to promote the revitalization of rural industries. In-depth implementation of the action to improve the quality and efficiency of characteristic industries, and use two years to build 10 major counties with industries worth 10 billion yuan, including 2 industries worth about 50 billion yuan for fruit and potato and 4 industries worth 100 billion yuan for cattle, sheep, vegetables, and medicine. Specialty agricultural product processing industry and food industry chain length system, vigorously implement the "Double Ten and Double Hundred" project of pre-made dishes, actively carry out agricultural investment promotion activities, persist in implementing the "Ganwei" brand marketing strategy, and strive to fully implement the "Six Major" characteristic industries. The output value of the industrial chain has reached more than 530 billion yuan. (over)