China News Service, Kunming, March 31 (Zhang Yuhui) What is it like to come to Kunming to talk about "flower affairs"? On the 29th, the themed interview event of "Looking at China through Thousands of Weather" came to Kunming Dounan Flower Market and Kunming International Flower Auction and Trading Center. In Dounan, Kunming, the crowds of flowers alternate day and night. As the buyers press the button, the auction price on the screen is fixed. Flower transactions lead the people of Dounan to the road to wealth.
According to reports, at least 7 out of 10 fresh cut flowers in the Chinese market come from Yunnan. Floats and florists flooded into the market. Cold-chain trucks loaded with flowers departed from here and went to major cities across the country. Hundreds of thousands of tons of flowers were sold to more than 50 countries including Russia, Poland, Japan, and South Korea. countries and regions. And "Look at Yunnan for Chinese flowers, and look at Dounan for Yunnan flowers." As the birthplace of "Yunhua", Kunming Dounan carries the soul and new life of "Yunhua".
Kunming Dounan Flower Market has a wide variety of flowers. Photo by Zhang Yuhui, China News Service
“Eighteen strange things in Yunnan, flowers are sold by the pound” is not an exaggeration in Dounan. Kunming Dounan Flower Market is the largest flower trading market in Asia and the second largest in the world, and is known as the "Flower Capital of Asia". Tulips, gypsophila, forget-me-nots... More than 1,600 varieties of flowers are gathered here. No one can walk out empty-handed. You only need to spend five or ten yuan to take a handful of "spring" home. .
On December 20, 2002, China's first auction-based Kunming International Flower Auction and Trading Center was completed. With the first hammer of the auction, Dounan flower trading entered the era of open and transparent bidding, and the flower industry opened a new era. curtain.
Picking, pre-cooling and shaping, packaging...the fantasy drifting of a flower begins here. According to reports, the fresh-cut flowers picked in the demonstration base were processed and transported to Dounan International Flower Industrial Park in Chenggong District, Kunming City on the other side of Dianchi Lake. After layers of inspection and classification, they were classified into multiple grades and converted into data. The information appeared on the electronic screen in the trading hall of Kunming Huapai Center.
At the Kunming International Flower Auction and Trading Center, the flower auction is underway. Photo by Zhang Yuhui, China News Service
The day on the trading floor begins at noon. The market opens at 1 pm every day. The auctioneer with extremely high market acumen stares at the screen and sets the starting price according to the transaction situation. The electronic clock moves counterclockwise. The bidders must make a judgment in the shortest time and press the bidding button. Here, one transaction takes 4 seconds on average, and a hand speed difference of 0.6 seconds will cause people to miss opportunities. At peak times, more than 1,000 trading seats were almost occupied. Then, the freshly cut flowers that were photographed were put on a "small train" and packaged and sent to all parts of the country and Southeast Asia.
"Different from the general auction market, at the Kunming Flower Auction Center, the flower auction adopts a price reduction method. The price proceeds from a constant high to downwards. The buyer presses the button first to win the auction. This price reduction auction method was introduced from the Netherlands. Compared with the traditional auction method, this method has faster transaction speed and is more suitable for fresh product transactions." said the relevant person in charge of Kunming Flower Auction Center.
Kunming International Flower Auction and Trading Center, where packaged flowers gather. Photo by Zhang Yuhui, China News Service
According to reports, as a comprehensive industrial service platform, one of the focuses of Kunming Flower Photography Center is to provide market information services and achieve "digital industrialization" through industrial big data analysis. The flower auction center's fresh cut flower transaction database stores more than 40 major categories, more than 3,000 flower varieties and 20 years of transaction data. Through big data mining, it provides scientific basis for the formulation of government industrial policies and market development, and also provides scientific basis for the formulation of government industrial policies and market development. Provide powerful help for flower farmers to understand the market and guide production.
There is a kind of life called Yunnan, which is not only a life decorated with flowers, but also a beautiful life where you can increase your income and become rich by relying on flowers. Branches of fresh-cut flowers sold all over the world carry the dreams and hopes of Dounan people, making their lives better and better. Today, Dounan flowers are fragrant all over the world, attracting visitors from all over the world, showing a beautiful Yunnan business card to all over the world. (over)