Green Organic Agricultural products shining the first Silk Road International Ecological Industry

Red dates and red peppers, green melons and green vegetables, purple grapes, black fungus, livestock meat products. On the booths, the colorful green organic agricultural products have attracted a large number of guests to stop, taste and watch. On the 11th, a large number of green organic agricultural products were shining at the first Silk Road International Ecological Industry Expo opened in Zhangye, Gansu Province.

Reporters in the green agriculture and organic products exhibition area saw an endless stream of people watching with interest a wide range of green and organic agricultural products.

"there are so many varieties." Zu Zhibin, a merchant from the Hebei Council for the Promotion of International Trade, lamented, "Zhangye's reputation as a 'Hexi granary' really lives up to its reputation, and green organic food such as vegetables, eggs, meat and poultry, which are closely related to our lives, can be seen here."

On the same day, the first Silk Road International Ecological Industry Expo and Green Organic products (Zhangye) Fair opened in Zhangye City, Gansu Province. More than 500 enterprises from 10 countries and regions, including Pakistan, Ghana, Vietnam, Italy, Thailand, Myanmar, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as 31 provinces and municipalities in China participated in the exhibition.

The reporter learned that in recent years, Zhangye City, the "Gobi Oasis", has been committed to developing modern ecological agriculture, developing facility agriculture in accordance with the requirements of "more lighting, less water, saving land, and high efficiency." the production of pollution-free agricultural products, green food, and organic agricultural products is gradually moving towards the track of specialization, scale and standardization. Zhangye has obvious characteristics of advantageous industries such as corn seed production, livestock and poultry breeding, plateau summer vegetables, traditional Chinese medicine, potatoes, edible fungi, forest and fruit, etc., which is currently the largest hybrid maize seed breeding base in China and one of the national agricultural reform and construction pilot demonstration areas.

"We have built a standardized agricultural product base of 3 million mu and a pollution-free agricultural product base of 2.3 million mu, which is the largest beef production base in Northwest China and a high-quality grape production base in China." Huang Zeyuan, mayor of Zhangye City, said, "at this exhibition, we want to put on the brand of 'green organic products' in Zhangye, so that more people at home and abroad can know, understand and participate in the exhibition in various ways. we will jointly promote the development of areas along the Silk Road to achieve positive interaction."

Zhangye City, located in the middle of Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province, has been the throat and merchant town of the Silk Road since ancient times, and it is also an important node city of the "Silk Road Economic Belt". It is known as "plugged to the south of the Yangtze River" and "Hexi granary".