Workers pack white Phalaenopsis raw cut flowers for export to Japan. Picture courtesy of Yongding District Media Center
China News Service, Yongding, Fujian, July 2 (Huang Qiuping, Lai Qingjing, Lu Yuwan) The Phalaenopsis Base of Wanhua Garden Forestry Company, Fenglin Village, Longtan Town, Yongding District, Longyan City, Fujian Province, is busy everywhere. Flower farmers are busy bagging and packaging fresh-cut Phalaenopsis for export to Japan. Xie Fansheng, the head of Wanhua Garden Company, said that sales of Phalaenopsis at the base were booming this year. Japanese customers alone ordered 400,000 pieces of pure white Phalaenopsis fresh-cut flowers.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Longtan Town prospered because of coal and was one of the main mining areas in Yongding District, Fujian Province. Faced with the "sequelae" of resource depletion and ecological environment destruction, Longtan Town has transformed into a green development path, vigorously cultivated the green industry of Phalaenopsis, introduced a modern flower agricultural industrial park, and created a "Phalaenopsis Orchid Town". According to reports, the output value of Phalaenopsis in Longtan Town exceeded 80 million yuan in 2021, and the export volume reached 800,000 plants.
In the process of vigorously developing the Phalaenopsis industry, Longtan Town focuses on building a party-building brand of "Butterflies bloom and the party flag is red", so that party organizations are built on the industrial belt, party members gather on the industrial chain, and the masses are rich on the industrial park, striving to form a " A multilateral win-win situation in which enterprises develop villages, villages promote enterprises, and the masses benefit.
Visitors wearing Hanfu went to the Phalaenopsis Base of Wanhua Garden to participate in flower arrangement activities. Photo courtesy of Yongding District Media Center
In order to highlight the role of the Fenglin Village-Shangxi Village contiguous and concentrated development core area, Longtan Town promotes the deep integration and simultaneous advancement of party building work and industrial development, forming a team of three villages and two enterprises with a total of more than 240 people The cross-village joint construction committee of the Communist Party of China in the core area of Phalaenopsis Industry in Longtan Town is composed of party members. The first secretary of the Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism in Fenglin Village serves as the general branch secretary. It has established the "Industrial Development Party Committee-Industrial Association Party Committee". The three-level organizational structure of "general branch-enterprise party branch" realizes that wherever the industry develops, party building will cover it.
Fenglin Village relies on the industrial and technological advantages of Wanhua Garden Company to prioritize employment and provide free technical training to households that have been lifted out of poverty with labor force, and has created employment for 12 households that have been lifted out of poverty. At the same time, Wanhua Garden Company provides help to households out of poverty through price discounts on flower seedlings and payment upon sale to stimulate the enthusiasm and initiative of households out of poverty.
"The profits from growing Phalaenopsis in the past few years have been very good. I am very happy. Phalaenopsis is really our blessing flower. Our life is becoming more and more prosperous." Zhan Linhua, a householder who has been lifted out of poverty, said with a smile.
sells Phalaenopsis live. Photo courtesy of Yongding District Media Center
Not only are households lifted out of poverty, but now more and more people from surrounding areas are joining the Phalaenopsis industry. The "flying geese effect" has become more and more obvious, forming a Phalaenopsis industry in every village and everyone participating in the Phalaenopsis industry. A good situation for the chain. According to statistics, the Phalaenopsis industry in Longtan Town has directly created employment for more than 300 people and benefited more than 2,000 people.
At present, the thousand-acre smart ecological agriculture industrial park project with a total investment of 300 million yuan is accelerating. Ecological agricultural enterprises such as Shuanglong Ecology, Xingke Chinese Herbal Medicine, Capernaum, and Yuhong Baiguo are developing rapidly. Phalaenopsis, Dendrobium officinale , passion fruit, lemon, anomatis, Gynostemma pentaphylla , Ganoderma , tree grape, Maoming mandarin orange, tribute mandarin orange and other special planting industries with a scale of more than 1,000 acres, and the industrial scale effect is increasingly apparent. In 2021, 100% of the villages in Longtan Town have collective operating income of more than 100,000 yuan, and 25% of the villages have more than 500,000 yuan.
"In the next step, we will make the Phalaenopsis industry bigger and stronger, promote the accelerated development of leisure, tourism, vacation and other industries, and achieve a high degree of integration of primary and tertiary industries." Wu Caikai, secretary of the Party Committee of Longtan Town, Yongding District, said with confidence . (End)
