Rural vitalization helps residents live better

The great change of Buzheng Village is an example of Zhanjiang's achievements after the city stepped up efforts to implement the rural vitalization strategy.

Liu Hongbing, Party secretary of Zhanjiang city, said that with a total planting area of more than 2,800 square kilometers of grain crops, Zhanjiang has attached great importance to the agricultural industry for a long time. Zhanjiang is accelerating the pace to build up a modern rural industrial system, promote the village construction, and make new achievements in its rural vitalization campaign.

In 2021, the city's total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery reached 105.2 billion yuan, up 9.1 percent year-on-year.

The added value hit 65.9 billion yuan, up 7.8 percent year-on-year. The per capita disposable income of rural residents was 20,693 yuan, up 10.3 percent year-on-year.

The city has built 25 national-level and provincial-level modern agricultural industrial parks. The number ranks first in the province.

Signature product lineups have been expanded with lotus root, flowers, ginger and aquatic products. Other advantageous industries are improving their scale and industrialization.

The industrial parks have attracted more than 1,200 entrepreneurs back to rural areas and provided working opportunities for more than 87,500 farmers in the past few years. Combined, this has benefited more than 58,000 households.

Zhanjiang has made great efforts in recent years to develop an agricultural product processing industry, including the deep processing of tropical fruits and vegetables, aquatic products, livestock products, ready-made dishes, grains, oilseeds, sugar, animal feed and medicine.

Currently, customers' needs for ready-made dishes are rising significantly.

In response to the trend, Zhanjiang has established a ready-made dish industry alliance and supplementary industrial parks. "Wuchuan Roast Fish", "Zhanjiang Prawn", and "Naozhou Abalone "are among some famous brands.