[Explanation] Right now, it is autumn busy time.

Tursun Toheti, a villager from Yaerbexi Village, Awati Township, Kashgar City, Xinjiang, came to the "fruit and vegetable picking base" next to the village early in the morning to prepare his own greenhouse.

　　[Explanation] Tursun has three arch sheds in the "fruit and vegetable picking base" where purple cabbage, cherry fruit, and cauliflower are planted. Currently, they are growing well.

　　[Explanation] This is the second crop of his arch shed planting this year.

The melons and watermelons grown in spring came on the market in May 2020. Off-season sales have brought him unexpected harvests. Excluding the input of contracting fees and fertilizers, he earned a total of RMB 23,500.

　　[Concurrent] Tursun·Toheti, a villager in Yaerbexi Village, Awati Township, Kashgar City, Xinjiang

　　Our family has five acres of land, planted wheat and corn, and the annual income is up to 2,000 yuan. The village planted arch sheds with an attitude of giving it a try. For the first time, we contracted 2 arch sheds, each with an income of 3,000 yuan. Confidence, another arch shed will be added to the house in 2020.

　　[Explanation] "Fruit and Vegetable Picking Bases" were built through the transfer of land. In the second half of 2019, more than 100 were built. Due to the emergence of planting benefits, it has now grown to 680.

　　[Concurrent] Xu Yeping, Vice Chairman of Xinjiang Council for the Promotion of International Trade and First Secretary of the Village

　　Our 680 large arch sheds were all transformed from corn fields and cotton fields in the past. Through a year’s comparison of planting benefits, the average benefit per mu of land has reached 5,000 to 8,000. Some Even more than 10,000 yuan, five to ten times what we used to grow corn and cotton.

　　[Explanation] Previously, most of the villagers had no experience in arch shed planting management. Last year or even at the beginning of this year, many villagers hesitated to contract for arch sheds.

Xu Yeping, vice chairman of the Xinjiang Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the first secretary of the village, said that in response to this situation, the village work team specially hired technicians and senior agronomists to visit each house, visit the fields, and hold fruit and vegetable management on-site meetings. The villagers gradually mastered the essentials of planting technology.

　　[Explanation] The fruits and vegetables are well grown, and the market is not worried.

Yaerbexi Village is only a 15-minute drive from Kashgar. In spring, 20 kinds of fruits and vegetables including flowers and strawberries in the "fruit and vegetable picking base" attract tourists to pick and buy.

In addition, many supermarket chains in Kashgar have set up special counters for agricultural products in Yaerbexi Village; during the epidemic prevention and control period, the villagers provided more than 50 tons of agricultural and sideline products to communities in Kashgar on the premise of taking good measures to prevent and control the epidemic.

　　[Explanation] Yalbeshi Village was once a deeply impoverished village, and it will be out of poverty at the end of 2019.

In addition to actively participating in the urban secondary and tertiary industries to solve labor employment, arched shed planting has become an important way to alleviate poverty and continue to increase income in Yaerbeshi Village.

　　[Concurrent] Wulamujiang·Aili, Deputy Secretary of the Party Group of the Poverty Alleviation Office of Kashgar City, Xinjiang

　　Since the beginning of this year, Kashgar City has focused on poverty alleviation, consolidated and improved efforts, focused on employment poverty alleviation, industrial poverty alleviation, and rural living environment improvement, and focused on the goal of creating "one village, one product, one town, one industry, and one county, one characteristic", and actively developed facility agriculture, Develop advantageous forestry and fruit industry, large-scale animal husbandry, rural tourism, and rural e-commerce, broaden the sales channels of agricultural and sideline products, promote consumption and poverty alleviation, and help the poor to escape poverty stably.

　　Rong Rui, Wang Wenhai, Bai Hongliang reports from Kashgar, Xinjiang

Editor in charge: [Wang Yu]