Guangxi: Flower Industry “Leaving the Sea by Boat” Developing Overseas Markets

On July 13, the Taiwan Flower Industry Park, with a total investment of 1.071 billion yuan, officially opened in Nanning, Guangxi. As one of the key projects of the "12th Five-Year Plan" flower industry demonstration project and the strategic cooperation between Guangxi and Taiwan, the completion of the project will create a cooperation and exchange platform for flower enterprises in Guangxi and Taiwan, and explore the exploration of overseas markets for the "flower-to-sea" development of Guangxi flower enterprises. A new way has emerged.

“The flower resources in Guangxi and Taiwan are extremely rich, and there is strong complementarity in terms of production resources, development areas, product markets, etc. There is ample scope for cooperation.” Liu Wei, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Guangxi People’s Government, hopes that the two places in Guangxi and Taiwan will use this to Opportunities, using flowers as a medium, continue to expand and deepen cooperation, jointly promote the rapid development of the flower industry, and emerge from a green development path of social benefits, economic benefits, and ecological benefits.

Guangxi is known as the “Kingdom of Plants” and the “Flower Treasury”. There are 7227 species of flower species, accounting for about 40% of the country. Guangxi develops a flower industry, with a favorable climate, abundant resources, and prominent location. In recent years, the party committees and governments of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have always attached great importance to the development of the flower industry. They have issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Flower Industry in Our Region", "Decision on Building a Strong Forestry Area," and "Building on the Thousands of Yuans of Agriculture. The industry promotes the industrialization of agriculture, and other documents, the flower industry is listed as one of the top ten industries in agriculture with a priority of 9 billion yuan in the development of the industry, and has created a favorable policy environment for the development of the flower industry.

“Guangxi’s flower resources are extremely rich and the potential of flower industry is huge.” Chen Zhangliang, vice chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, believes that in recent years, the rapid development of the flower industry in Guangxi has led to the emergence of a large number of flower production leading enterprises and large and medium-sized flower production bases, gradually showing regionalization. The good trend of scale, specialization, specialization, and park development has effectively promoted agricultural efficiency and increased farmers' income. It has become an important way for Guangxi to enrich the forest and enrich the people.

Chen Zhangliang stated that Guangxi should take the opening of the Taiwan Flower Industry Park as an opportunity to use the flower industry as a major industry for transforming the development mode, adjusting the industrial structure, and increasing the income of farmers, and strive to maintain the good momentum of rapid and sound forestry development in the region. To further promote the construction of ecological civilization demonstration areas and strong forestry regions.

According to statistics, in 2011, there were more than 500,000 employees in the flower industry in Guangxi, the planting area was 500,000 mu, and the output value reached 7.5 billion yuan. “At present and for some time to come, Guangxi's forestry sector will aim at increasing farmers' incomes, corporate efficiency, and industrial development, increase support, expand opening to the outside world, and build the flower industry into a new growth point for the forestry industry, and strive to reach 2015. The planting area of ​​flowers in Guangxi is more than 800,000 mu and the output value is more than 15 billion yuan, said Chen Qiuhua, director of Guangxi Forestry Department.