Since ancient time there is an old saying that the harvest of Dongting lake and Poyang lake areas could provide the whole nation. How to trade the two lake area resources across everywhere? Especially how to joint agriculture production and trading activities in Hunan, Hubei and Chongqing border area? Two lakes green valley agricultural products trading center located at Jingzhou city is all answer to these questions.
Two lake green valley is named as the vegetable basket, fruit plate and grain bag for Hunan, Hubei and Chongqing region. It is rich in vegetables, fruits, dried food, grain, cooking oil, by-product, frozen food and other agriculture products. On Sep 23rd, our reporter came to two lake green valleys to witness agricultural products circulation in Hunan, Hubei and Chongqing border areas.
Since its foundation, the “two lake green valley center” has connected with more than 300 agricultural bases nationwide and set up the supply relationship. It contacts with agricultural merchants and attracts more than 5000 agricultural products dealers across the country entering; the distribution sub-centers specially supplied to supermarkets in Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing and surrounding areas are established, 20 well-known supermarkets all over the province and the country distribute goods at here, the daily average distribution amount reaches around 1000tons, more than 20 processing enterprises are introduced in, and the direct selling points of products are set by adopting the way of “the store in front and a plant at the back”.
At present, through connecting with each link of the production and sales of agricultural products, the “two-lake green valley center” realizes the longitudinal series connection of the upstream agricultural producers and the downstream agricultural consumers, and the transversal radiation of national agricultural market. Currently, the “two-lake green valley center” has radiated more than 400 counties and cities in 28 provinces, areas and municipalities, such as Hubei, Chongqing, Hunan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, etc. The annual trading volume breaks through 552 tons, and the transaction amount reached to 34 billion Yuan, ranking at the top five of the national agricultural trading market.
As the important geographic position of the middle reaches of Yangtze River and the communications centre of north-south road transportation, Jingzhou located in the hinterland of Jianghan plain always dominates the strategic position of “the connection of the north and the south”, has historically been the important trade and logistics distribution center for goods from the north and the south.
Nowadays, Shanghai-Wuhan-Chengdu high-speed railway has been completed and goes through Jingzhou. As the development of Yangtze River Economic Zone, Jingzhou owns the “Golden Waterway” of 483 km; Jingzhou has entered into the golden development era with superposition of multiple strategic opportunities, the traffic conditions and the geographical advantages of the city have got further highlighted.
Tanking the opportunities of development, the mode of “two-lake green valley center” will be developed in depth. It aims at the freshwater product resources with total annual production amount of 1.22million tons in Jingzhou, creates the large scale “aircraft carrier” of water product distribution—China Freshwater Product Trading Center. Through this distribution trading center, the freshwater product resources in Jingzhou will be integrated, the industrial structure will be optimized and the product quality will be improved, which will realize the multi-win of market, farmers, base and enterprises, etc.
Located in the hinterland of the wealthy two lakes plain, the “two-lake green valley center” follows the development concept of “making the farmers all over the country smile” to construct the distribution system radiating the whole country, is making great efforts to realize the commitment of “gathering two lakes, supplying China and connecting through the world”.