"Where are the olives?" "The fruit turns out to be so bitter!" This is the first impression a Yugur girl had when she came to Longnan, Gansu, when faced with the olives growing in the mountains and plains.
The Yugur people are a unique ethnic group in Gansu, living under the Qilian Mountains in the middle of the Hexi Corridor.
They grew up on the grasslands of the northwest, and they are still quite unfamiliar with the tropical plant olive.
Olive oil is native to the Mediterranean coast, and the olive branch that people often say symbolizes peace is the branch of olive oil.
As early as the 1960s, as a "national gift" from the Albanian government to China, more than 10,000 olive saplings were planted in 15 provinces in China, and only three production areas were left in Gansu, Yunnan and Sichuan.
Longnan, Gansu Province is known as the "Hometown of Olive Oils in China" due to its large planting area, high quality and high added value.
Today, the area of the olive industry in Longnan has grown to more than 700,000 mu, accounting for about half of the country's total area, and its output accounts for more than 70% of the country's total.
Not only has the fruit of olive oil been developed into more than 80 series of products, but even its branches and leaves have been "eaten and squeezed clean".
A small olive has not only taken root here across the ocean, but has also become a new password for this land to get rid of poverty and become rich. How did it do that?
From the branches to the throat, Yugur girls will take you to track the adventures of the little olive.
(Reporter Gao Ying)
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]