Speciality produce and craft from poorer regions is food for thought
BEEF from Tibet, walnuts from Xinjiang, tea from Yunnan and orange wine from Chongqing are on sale at special exhibitions in Shanghai which run until next Monday.
One of the showcases of specialties from seven provincial regions began yesterday at the Yuanshen Sports Center in the Pudong New Area. It is being organized by the Shanghai government’s office of domestic poverty relief and cooperation. The opening marked China’s fifth National Day of Poverty Relief.
Shanghai residents and businesses have the chance to purchase more than 5,000 types of food, ingredients and handicrafts from Yunnan, Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, Guizhou, Chongqing and Hubei.
One of the exhibitors is Aygul, director of Siluguoxiang, an agricultural trader based in Yarkant County, Kashgar in Xinjiang. Aygul said she has been selling walnuts, grapes, apples, almonds and dates from Kashgar at agricultural exhibitions in Shanghai for years.
She said the quality of the province’s agricultural products had improved thanks to agricultural experts from Shanghai.
“Previously our farmers harvested apples too early,” she said. “Now they have learned to abide their time so that they can have bigger and sweeter fruit.”
The economic cooperation between Shanghai and Kashgar enables traders like Aygul to sell farm produce from Xinjiang directly to businesses in Shanghai, including restaurants and supermarkets.
The Shanghai government said the development of local tourism has generated more than 400 new jobs in Kashgar so far this year.
Danbei Jiacan is the legal representative of a Tibetan culture company based in Golog, Qinghai, which promotes Dernang Sadris, a Tibetan calligraphy art, which is China’s national cultural heritage.
He is attending the exhibition to seek a market for the unique Tibetan art from Golog.
The first day of the exhibition already drew a lot of interest.
Ruan Jiaming, Shanghai Fengxian Economic Development Co, signed a number of framework agreements of cooperation with the exhibitors. He said he is sourcing products to place on the shelves of the company’s community outlets.
“Those areas are home to a lot of products that can’t be grown here in Shanghai but are much loved here,” he said. “In Qinghai they have high-quality Chinese caterpillar fungus and saffron.”
Apart from Yuanshen Sports Center, the exhibition can also be found at Minhang Gymnasium, Jiading Stadium and Shanghai Agricultural Exhibition Hall.
The exhibitions at the sports center, the gymnasium and the stadium are being held until Sunday, while at the agricultural exhibition hall it will be held from tomorrow to Sunday.
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