Day: November 25, 2022

JINXIU, China, Nov. 25, 2022 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/– The celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County will be held in Jinxiu County on November 28, 2022. At the appointed time, there will be a variety of celebration activities with national characteristics, including welcome party, celebration activities, national art performance, 70th anniversary achievement exhibition, symposium on economic and social development, county-level celebration art party, grassroots visit activities and a series of cultural and sports activities.

Peace Tree of Sheng Tang Mountain

Jinxiu, the earliest Yao Autonomous County after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, is located in the Dayao Mountains in the east of the central part of Guangxi. With a total area of 2,518 square kilometers and a total population of 156,000, Jinxiu is a county with the largest number of Yao ethnic groups and enjoys the reputation of “Capital of Yao People in the World”. Mr. Fei Xiaotong, a famous contemporary sociologist, once said: “The Yao research center of the world is in China, and the Yao research center of China is in Jinxiu.” And he wrote the inscription — “Home of Yao”.

Jinxiu has a forest coverage rate of 87.91%, ranking first in Guangxi. The county is neither cold in winter nor hot in summer, having a high content of negative oxygen ions. It is a resort for health care and summer resort. There are many kinds of wild animals and plants throughout the county, ranging from the Shinisaurus Crocodilurus Ahl survived in the age of dinosaurs to the extremely rare “queen of butterflies” — teinopalpus aureus, and “living fossil of plants” — cathaya argyrophylla as well as other rare animals and plants. At present, there are 6 national AAAA scenic spots such as the Shengtang Mountain and Lianhua Mountain. During the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, the county has received 31.357 million tourists, realizing a tourism income of RMB 27.64 billion and having transformed the ecological value contained in “clear waters and green mountains” into “mountains of gold and silver”, according to the Publicity Department of Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County.

Since the “13th Five-Year Plan”, Jinxiu has been accelerating the transformation of its agricultural development pattern, giving full play to its gifted strengths and “characteristic” industries. A total of 99 core demonstration areas (parks and demonstration sites) of modern characteristic agriculture have been built. The county has 205,000 mu of fruit planting area, 95,600 mu of camellia oleifera, 55,400 mu of tea trees, and 170,600 mu of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, with 1,162,300 mu of non-timber forest-based industrial area. The featured agriculture has become a “treasure bowl” for farmers to increase their income. New agricultural operators have become the “vitality factor” of modern agriculture, injecting strong momentum for construction of modern agricultural demonstration parks.

Jinxiu has successively won the titles of “Model Collective of National Unity and Progress”, “The Most Beautiful County in China”, “Natural Oxygen Bar in China”, Practice and Innovation Base for “clear waters and green mountains are as good as mountains of gold and silver” and “Ecological County in Guangxi”. The county has successfully established “National All-for-one Tourism Demonstration Area”, “National Forest Tourism Demonstration County” and “Guangxi Famous Tourism County”. It is also awarded the titles of “Home of Yao Medicine in China” and “Demonstration Base of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Guangxi”.

Source: The Publicity Department of Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County

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XINCHENG, China, Nov. 25, 2022 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/– Cattle breeding is one of the main industries for poverty alleviation in Xincheng, Guangxi. For the past few years, Xincheng County has ramped up efforts to carry out the strategy of “enhancing agricultural steadiness” and supported and mobilized the mass to develop cattle breeding industry. This consolidates the achievements in poverty alleviation, injects impetus to rural revitalization, and pushes forward high-quality county economic development. In the first half of this year, the gross production value of this county shows a year-on-year growth of 3.3%, and the value for agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery a year-on-year growth of 5.3%.

Acting according to local conditions and stepping up upgradation in industrial transformation

In Lianjiang Breeding Base of the Poverty Alleviation Project of the “Southern Cattle City” Whole Industry Chain, cattle are leisurely eating grass.

Xincheng County, located in mountainous area stricken by stony desertification, is bad in geographical condition and weak in industry foundation. Wei Meng, secretary of Xincheng County Committee, says that the county gives priority to extending the cattle industry chain, strengthening cattle-leading industries and enhancing added value of the cattle industry to make progress in rural revitalization.

In recent years, Xincheng County, grounding its effort in advantage in featured industry, has adopted the development pattern led by leading enterprises, cooperatives, producing bases and farmer households and put in place ‘Cattle City in Southern China’, a project for the whole industry chain, with total investment value of RMB 1.428 billion. Also, with Silian town as the core region, a full industry chain comprised of a butchery, a marketing center, cold-chain logistics and 5 farming bases has been built. It covers all the towns and administrative villages, stepping up the upgradation of industrial transformation.

Enhancing revenue and living better life through higher yield

Xincheng County has opened up new channels for increasing revenue, including land conversion, planting pasture, cow breeding in every farmer household, and centralized fat cow breeding through cooperatives, which helps the mass to live a better life.

Also, the cooperatives and farmer households can gain capital through loan pattern for cattle breeding, which is comprised of enterprise guarantee, bonding company, bank, and cooperatives or households. Services in technology, marketing and training are provided by the enterprises. Every cooperative can raise and market 300-800 fat cows a year and gain the minimum dividend of over RMB 3,000. Also, every farmer household can feed and raise 5-20 cows, each of which can bring the profit of more than RMB 6,000. Households who do not have place for cattle breeding can use leased land for pasture planting, growing and harvesting or can help the producing bases and cooperatives to bring up the cattle, with average revenue per month RMB 2,500 – 3,000.

In Xincheng County, led by ‘Cattle City in Southern China’, it is estimated that 100,000 plus beef cattle can be reared in a year. Also, more than 10,000 households will breed cows, and over 7,000 farmers will invest in planting pasture, with average annual revenue for each household over RMB 30,000 and for each cooperative more than RMB 900,000.

Interconnected interest booms the rural collective economy

For the past few years, Xincheng County has found through trial and error and established the interest mechanism connecting the group and each farm household, and the cattle economy in towns and administrative villages has flourished. Meanwhile, distribution mode featuring minimum interest and dividend redistribution has been adopted, which ensures that fruitful results rural collective economy gains can be brought to all people in the villages.

Additionally, based on the preferential policy, cooperation between Guangxi and Guangdong, targeted assistance and other advantages, Xincheng County has made progress in building the clustered assistance system and expanded the investment in the assistance, which develops the rural collective economy with ‘Cattle City in Southern China’ and other full-industry-chain projects. In 2021, the total rural collective economic revenue in the county reached around RMB 23.2031 million. It is projected to witness a year-on-year increase of more than 7% this year.

For the next step, Xincheng County will try to build business area for the full industry chain of the ‘Cattle City in Southern China’, and products will be sold to Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan and other proximal provinces and regions, making this specialized county region city more renown to other regions.

Source: The Publicity Department of Xincheng County

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BAISE, China, Nov. 25, 2022 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/– On November 2, the press conference on the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Baise City was held in Nanning, Guangxi. In the past 20 years, Baise has insisted on giving priority to industry and made every effort to promote the high-quality development of strong industry, characteristic agriculture and modern service industry. With the total output value growing 8.5 times, the total volume of import and export trade increasing by 44 times, and the scale of aluminum industry reaching RMB 100 billion, Baise successively won the honorary titles of “Top Tourist City of China” and “National Garden City”.

New Look of Baise

Located in the west of Guangxi, Baise is a prefecture-level city with the largest border area between China and Vietnam, and also an important frontier city for China to open and cooperate with ASEAN countries, according to the Publicity Department of Baise City. Over the past 20 years, Baise has seized opportunities, carried forward reform and innovation and forged ahead, significantly enhancing the overall strength of the city, greatly changing the appearance of urban and rural areas, substantially improving the people’s living standards, and achieving a great success in development and opening up. Public services such as employment, education, medical care, housing, maternity and old-age services have been well guaranteed and continuously improved, and the well-being of the people has been greatly improved. Its revitalization of industry has been developed rapidly and steadily, a regional power grid in Baise has been constructed and a national demonstration base for ecological aluminum industry has been built, with the scale of aluminum industry reaching RMB 100 billion. As its featured agriculture has been developed in an accelerated manner, Baise mango becomes one of the first 100 geographical indication products protected by European Union in China. Baise has pushed forward comprehensive management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes and grasses, and increased the forest coverage from 42.3% in 2002 to 73% in 2021, winning the honorary titles of “National Forest City” and “National Model City for Greening”.

Meanwhile, Baise persists in reform and opening up, and constantly improves the level of opening up. Baise Key Development and Opening Pilot Zone was approved to be set up, making it China’s first prefecture-level city-wide key development and opening pilot zone along the border. Longbang Port was upgraded to an international port and opened up the Naxi Corridor. Locals living by both sides of the border trade with each other and the output value of on-site processing of import goods ranks first in Guangxi. The international channel towards ASEAN has been further opened.

In addition, the construction of a batch of opening up and cooperation platforms, including Guangxi Aluminum Products Warehousing and Trading Center and Jingxi Border Economic Cooperation Zone, has been accelerated. The “Baise-1” train has successfully connected with China-Europe Railway Express, and foreign trade has developed rapidly. Baise has become one of the important node cities facing ASEAN and connecting the “Belt and Road”.

Facing the future, Baise will persist in opening up for development, build Baise Key Development and Opening Pilot Zone with high quality, and accelerate the construction of such platforms as the Border Economic Cooperation Zone and the Cross-province (District) Economic Park. Besides, Baise will actively integrate into the “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area – Beibu Gulf Economic Zone – ASEAN” cross-regional and cross-border industrial chain supply chain and build a new pattern of higher-level opening up and cooperation.

Source: The Publicity Department of Baise City

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