Jingzhou, Hunan: 200000 tourists enjoy 60, 000 tons of bayberry and other products in Feishan

On the morning of the 5th, the 2016 China Jingzhou Waxberry Festival and Feishan Cultural Tourism Festival opened in Jingzhou, Hunan Province.

Li Hui, director of Hunan Provincial Department of Culture, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.

Leaders attending the meeting jointly launched the 2016 Jingzhou Waxberry Festival and Feishan Cultural Tourism Festival.

Issue certificates to emissaries helping farmers.

Red net Huaihua June 5 (moment News reporter Deng Xiaojuan Chen Zonghao) Pingjingzhou Yangmei, appreciate Miao Dong amorous feelings. This morning, the 2016 China Jingzhou Waxberry Festival and Feishan Culture Tourism Festival opened in Jingzhou, Hunan Province. The famous red bayberry "feast" and unique cultural "feast" have attracted a large number of tourists, cultural scholars and businessmen from all over the country.

Li Hui, director of the Department of Culture of Hunan Province, Chen Xingliang, vice president of the China Forestry Society and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Forestry Sciences, and Wang Zhenzhong, member of the department of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and deputy director of the Institute of History, attended the opening ceremony.

The Waxberry Festival is sponsored by the people's Government of Huaihua City and hosted by the people's Government of Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County, with the assistance of Hunan people's Broadcasting Station, China Huinong Network and Hunan Yipin Oriental Biotechnology Co., Ltd. According to the Jingzhou Waxberry Festival Office, the output of red bayberry in Jingzhou County will reach 60, 000 tons in 2016, and 200000 tourists will visit Jingzhou during the Waxberry Festival.

In order to develop characteristic industries, promote bayberry sales and increase M.G.K. Menon income, the Jingzhou county party committee and county government decided to hold six major theme activities during the Waxberry Festival, namely, the opening ceremony of bayberry, the launching ceremony of Changsha Pingmei event, the online bayberry festival, the bayberry sales and ordering meeting, tourism series activities and Feishan cultural activities. Through activities to promote M.G.K. Menon out of poverty and increase income, promote the development of eco-tourism, carry forward the Feishan culture. During the Waxberry Festival, tourist attractions such as Yangmei Landscape Mountain, Feishanzhai, Yanjiao Dongzhai, Bamboo shoot Miao Village, Sun Island and Paiyashan State-owned Forest Farm in Jingzhou will simultaneously open a series of tourism activities to welcome tourists from all over the country.

The opening ceremony of the 2016 Jingzhou Waxberry Festival and Feishan Culture and Tourism Festival in Jingzhou, China, is bustling. With the music with national characteristics sounded, an original ecological stage play "Love of Plum" opened the prelude to the Waxberry Festival. The program is divided into five chapters: "making Mei", "giving Mei", "singing Mei", "loving Mei" and "Wanmei", which vividly annotates Jingzhou's long history and colorful red bayberry culture. Jingzhou high-quality bayberry production base and the top ten bayberry sales enterprises in 2015 were awarded medals. The emissaries who were selected through the Chinese online vote to benefit farmers were also awarded certificates at the opening ceremony. After the bayberry picking ceremony, tens of thousands of leading guests, media journalists and self-driving tourists from all over the country boarded the plum platform to enjoy the scenery of ten thousand mu of plum, taste the bayberry in Jingzhou and enjoy the taste of the original ecology.

Jingzhou red bayberry has a history of more than 2000 years. It is one of the main producing areas of red bayberry in China and is known as "the hometown of Chinese bayberry". Its unique "Mudong Waxberry" has the reputation of "the first plum in the south of the Yangtze River". The planting area of red bayberry in the county is 76000 mu, the output is about 60, 000 tons, and the output value is 1 billion yuan. Red bayberry industry is one of the characteristic agricultural industries in Jingzhou County. In recent years, Jingzhou has made great efforts to develop the intensive processing of bayberry, lengthening the industrial chain, and other enterprises such as Yipin Dongfang, San Spaino and Xiang Baishi have settled in Jingzhou one after another. The bayberry deep processing enterprises digested the bayberry which was not suitable for fresh sale on the spot, which not only greatly increased M.G.K. Menon's income, but also solved some idle labor force in the countryside. Hunan Yipin Oriental Biotechnology Co., Ltd. has a total investment of 235 million yuan to set up a factory in Jingzhou to produce bayberry beverages. With the continuous development and growth of bayberry industry, bayberry planting and processing has become a pillar industry in Jingzhou, and bayberry has also become a "golden fruit" for local farmers to increase their income and become rich.