Zhao'an County, the "hometown of China's green plums", held the 2022 green plum industry promotion conference in Chengdu

On November 9, on the eve of the 2022 National Autumn Sugar and Wine Festival and the 106th National Sugar and Wine Fair, Zhao'an County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, known as the "hometown of China's green plums", organized county high-quality production enterprises and hundreds of green plum products to hold a green plum industry promotion conference
in Chengdu.
Yuanyang, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Zhao'an County Party Committee, Chen Sanwu, Deputy County Governor of Zhao'an County Government, as well as responsible persons of relevant industry associations, buyers, and production enterprises attended the event
.

During the promotion meeting, Zhao'an County also held a tasting of green plum wine
.
Xu Jian, deputy secretary-general and professor-level senior engineer of China Food Industry Association, Song Quanhou, vice president and professor-level senior engineer of China Food Fermentation Industry Research Institute, and Yin Jianjun, deputy director of the National Food Quality Supervision and Inspection Center and professor-level senior engineer, were invited to review green plum wine and provide suggestions
for the healthy development of Zhao'an green plum wine industry.

At the promotion meeting, Chen Sanwu introduced that Zhao'an County has 12,000 mu of standardized planting demonstration gardens for green plums, making use of selenium-rich natural advantageous resources, vigorously developing the green fruit of green plums, successively supporting more than 130 green plum processing enterprises, and developing more than 300 varieties in 7 series, including green plum compote, green plum salted fruit, green plum cold fruit, green plum wine, green plum beverage, mixed products, health food, etc.
, becoming the main production, processing and export industrial base of China's green plum, and successfully building into the "hometown of China's green plum".
Nearly 150,000 people in Zhaoquan County have benefited
.

Chen Sanwu said that in rural revitalization and the "14th Five-Year Plan", Zhao'an County will continue to improve and strengthen the characteristic industries of green plums, promote the green, healthy and high-quality development of the industry, and realize the increase of income of Mei farmers, the efficiency of Mei enterprises, and the revitalization
of the Qingmei industry.
With an annual budget of 15 million yuan, the county will continue to implement the support measures for the industrialization of green plums in Zhao'an County, and strive to achieve a total output value of 10 billion yuan in the county's green plum industry by 2025 through the supplementary support of the county financial awards, and become a full-industry chain characteristic agricultural industry
integrating planting, processing and sales.

It is reported that Zhao'an has continued to strengthen the encouragement and support for the development of the green plum industry over the years
.
This year, the county government has allocated 5.
9 million yuan of financial funds to reward large producers and sales of green plums, and advocated enterprises to increase the purchase price of standard plums and purchase standard plums
from Meinong at a price of not less than 3.
4 yuan per kilogram.
Statistics show that this year, more than 80,000 tons of green plums have entered the factory in the county, the output value of green plum fresh fruits is 238 million yuan, and the per capita income of fruit farmers has increased by more than 200 yuan, which has better protected the enthusiasm of
fruit farmers.

Wu Xiongming, secretary-general of the Zhao'an County Plum Association, said that this year, a total of 35 green plum industry operators in the county have applied for the implementation of 69 green plum industrialization development projects, with a cumulative total investment of more than 120 million yuan
。 Among them, the special subsidy (including incentives) for the development of the green plum industry is 12.
483 million yuan, which is mainly used for the transformation and upgrading of the green plum orchard, the integration of plum tourism culture, the brand building of the Zhao'an green plum industry, market expansion, the development and growth of the green plum industry, etc.
to obtain the national green plum industrial park construction project, and strive for 41 million yuan of central subsidy funds in the main production areas of green plum such as Taiping and Hongxing in the county, mainly used to build the cultural integration project of the plum tourism in Hongxing Township, build the Internet of Things platform of the green plum smart orchard, Improve and transform the high-quality standardized base
of Qingmei.

In recent years, Zhao'an County has increased its R&D support for green plum wine
.
Zhao'an Zimeishan Fruit Wine R&D Co.
, Ltd.
has developed high-quality dry pure fermented plum wine, taking ensuring product quality and building product brands as the lifeline of enterprises, and striving for survival
by quality.
Relying on the green food production base of more than 5,000 acres, the company has a fully automated fruit wine production line
with an annual output of 1,000 tons.
The wine is made by rinsing, stemming, pitting, microbial bacteria, white sugar and pure natural spring water, and fermented in sealed tanks for a long time and at constant temperature
.

It is reported that Zhao'an is the county with the largest export output and output value of green plums in China, mainly dry and wet plums, seasoned plums and OEM labels, mainly sold to Japan, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries and Taiwan and other places, with an export output value of 630 million yuan
in 2021.
Zhao'an Qingmei is the "master Hua Dan" of Zhao'an agriculture, a characteristic agricultural product of Zhangzhou City, and a friendly "plum" to
promote regional economic integration.

(Chen Xianglin)

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