Nanning, September 9 (Reporter Huang Yanmei) September 24 is the sixth "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival", Guangxi has carried out a series of harvest festival themed activities with Guangxi characteristics, ethnic characteristics and local characteristics, building a stage for farmers to display their style, a platform for entrepreneurship, and showing the new changes in Guangxi's countryside, new agricultural development and new style of farmers.

On the same day, Liu Ning, Secretary of the Party Committee of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, came to Yongning District, Nanning City, to celebrate the "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival" with the people. Liu Ning stressed that all departments at all levels in Guangxi should thoroughly implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, strengthen food security guarantees, stabilize the basic agricultural market, do a solid job in the work of "three rural areas" in the new era and new journey, take increasing farmers' income as the central task of the "three rural areas" work, base on Guangxi's characteristic resource endowments, vigorously develop facility agriculture and smart agriculture, develop and expand characteristic industries that enrich the people, make the "rice bag" guarantee strong, the "vegetable basket" supply sufficient, do everything possible to broaden the channels for farmers to increase income and get rich, and comprehensively promote rural revitalization. Speed up the pace of agricultural and rural modernization, build strong agricultural areas, and create livable, workable and beautiful villages.

On September 9, the 23 Guangxi Celebration of the Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival and the series of selenium-rich crayfish in Guigang were held in Caoliang Village, Mengxu Town, Guiping City. Photo by China News Network reporter Huang Yanmei

At the 2023 "Supply and Marketing Fair" and celebration of the Farmers' Harvest Festival in Yongning District, Nanning City, local people sang and danced to celebrate the harvest year and share joy. At the agricultural products exhibition stall, rice, peanut oil, chicken and duck, grapefruit, passion fruit, lemon, taro and other local specialties, melons, fruits and vegetables are dazzling.

In Caoliang Village, Mengxu Town, Guiping City, Guangxi, the 2023 Guangxi Celebration of the "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival" and the series of selenium-rich crayfish activities in Guigang were held here. At the event site, a kilometer "harvest long roll" was set up, and more than 70 booths of Chang Roll, such as Guiping Xishan tea, Wuzhou Liupao tea, Liuzhou snail flour, and Shanglin rice, gathered at more than <> booths in the long roll. The event also held the Field Harvest Carnival Special Games, Rural Cooking Competition, etc., and the public exhibited folk intangible cultural heritage such as tea picking opera, spring bull dance, and Guiping cane puppet show, attracting a large number of tourists to participate in the experience.

On September 9, the 23 Guangxi Celebration of the Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival and the series of selenium-rich crayfish in Guigang were held in Caoliang Village, Mengxu Town, Guiping City. The picture shows the scene of a crayfish fishing competition. Photo by China News Network reporter Huang Yanmei

Huang Zhiyu, director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, said that in recent years, Guangxi has conscientiously implemented the Party Central Committee's decision-making and deployment on the work of "three rural areas", based on the advantages of characteristic resources such as forests, fruits, vegetables, livestock and sugar, vigorously developed modern characteristic agriculture, and created a batch of 100 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) industries such as grain, sugar cane, and fruits.

On September 9, the 23 Guangxi Celebration of the Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival and Guigang Selenium-rich Crayfish Series was held in Caoliang Village, Mengxu Town, Guiping City, and local interesting folk activities attracted a large number of tourists to participate in the experience. Photo by China News Network reporter Huang Yanmei

Guigang is a traditional agricultural city, known as the "granary of Guangxi" and "the hometown of fish and rice". In recent years, Guigang City has vigorously developed the selenium-rich crayfish industry, vigorously promoted the five rice and shrimp comprehensive breeding models of rice field flat farming, winter idle winter farming, drought water culture, photovoltaic + rice shrimp, lotus field + rice shrimp in accordance with local conditions, and built a comprehensive rice and shrimp breeding area of more than 6,<> mu, driving more than <>,<> farmers, and the mu output income exceeded <>,<> yuan, creating a scene of "<> catties of shrimp, <> catties of grain and <>,<> yuan of fields" per mu, and the popularity of "China's selenium-rich crayfish town" is constantly increasing.

It is reported that this year, Guangxi celebrates the "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival" activities to sink to counties, townships and villages, and the region will carry out more than 100 harvest celebration activities, closer to rural production and life, so that farmers can truly become the protagonists of the festival, and create a folk festival that not only reflects the inheritance of excellent agricultural culture, but also contains the spirit of the new era. (End)