This is no ordinary communication activity. Behind the Zhongshan delegation's participation in the Flower Expo is a southern town's bid for a national-level event: the 1 1 China Flower Expo in 2025.
How can a small town in the south support a national "flower and tree"?
To answer this question, let's start with three "collisions"
The collision between 44 science and technology Committee members and Hua Mu Town
A country's flower affair is a comprehensive reflection of a local economic strength, regional industrial base and urban flower and tree culture. In recent years, Zhongshan, with a strong industrial base, has built a business card of Huamu City in the Bay Area in a low-key manner.
A rural science and technology correspondent came to the village, which was an exciting event in henglan town, Zhongshan City, the hometown of flowers and trees in China last year.
When it comes to flowers and trees industry, henglan town is a "strength bearer" in Zhongshan and even the Bay Area. At present, the management area of flowers and trees in henglan town is about 30,000 mu, of which the contiguous area exceeds 1 10,000 mu.
After years of development, Henglan Flower and Tree Base has changed from a traditional planting type to a large flower and tree production and marketing center integrating planting, sales and display. With a complete industrial chain, it is an important distribution center for green seedlings in South China, with more than 2,600 flower and wood farms. It can be said that Henglan promotes the development of flowers and trees industry in Zhongshan with the power of a town.
In 2020, henglan town created a number of firsts and firsts in the extension of the flower and tree industrial chain. Last year, 65438+1 October 29th-165438+1October1,China (Zhongshan) Flower and Tree Industry Conference 2020 was successfully held in Henglan, setting two "best in history"-the largest number of exhibitors and the highest transaction volume. Under the influence of the industry congress, the flowers and trees industry in Henglan began to move towards a bigger stage and a higher level.
Last year, the "China (Zhongshan) Flower and Tree Industry Conference" 2020 was successfully held in Henglan.
It was also in this year that the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology took henglan town as the key supporting unit of rural science and technology commissioners, and for the first time linked the rural science and technology commissioners to the village level. Among the first batch of 44 members, 32 are doctoral students and 23 have the title of associate professor or associate researcher, covering the fields of research and development of new varieties of flowers and trees, pest control, recycling of production waste and so on. 20 scientific research projects that accurately correspond to the characteristic industrial chain of Henglan will bring the "golden shoulder" of agricultural modernization to agricultural enterprises and farmers in 10 village. At the same time, Henglan also created the first provincial agricultural science and technology park in the city last year, which is the first time that a provincial park has settled in a township.
The first town-level rural science and technology correspondent team in the province brought not only a "golden pole", but also the key to the butterfly change of flower and tree industry. It represents a higher vision and greater ambition for the future of the flowers and trees industry in Henglan.
Last year, henglan town also signed the first all-round cooperation agreement for the revitalization of hospitals, towns and villages in the province. Henglan town Municipal Government and College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture of South China Agricultural University are twinning, taking the lead in promoting rural revitalization in the mode of school-town cooperation in the province, and carrying out all-round and in-depth cooperation in industry, planning, talents and science and technology. At present, the two sides are focusing on promoting the in-depth docking of projects such as the construction of contiguous rural revitalization demonstration sites in Wusha and Liusha villages and the online trading platform for flowers and trees.
The collision between the hometown of great men and the culture of flowers and trees
The thousand-year history of Xiangshan is the history of a flower.
Zhongshan, which is "rich in fairy flowers", has a tradition of holding large-scale chrysanthemum fairs since ancient times, and the flowers and trees culture genes are heavy. It was Sun Yat-sen, a great man, who came out of this land and was the first person in China's modern history to realize the significance of forests and advocate afforestation. Every March 12, Arbor Day is designated to commemorate Sun Yat-sen, who has always advocated afforestation.
Zhongshan is born of flowers, beautiful because of flowers, and prosperous because of flowers. Since 1980s and 1990s, Zhongshan has been building a garden city with reference to foreign advanced experience. There are many parks in the area, and the main roads, roads and residential areas of the city are surrounded by flowers and trees. Rhododendron and exotic kapok are in full bloom, and have successively won the highest award in the field of global human settlements-"UN Habitat Award", national garden city, national historical and cultural city and other honors.
Flower and tree culture has produced rich industrial achievements in Zhongshan. At present, Zhongshan has three "Hometowns of Flowers and Trees in China", namely, henglan town, Xiaolan Town and Guzhen Town, and has built a hundred-mile green gardening corridor in the northwest, northeast and Gushen highways. The local planting area of flowers and trees is about 6.5438+0.2 million mu, and there are 8,435 flower and tree enterprises in the city, including more than 3,000 enterprises from all over the country, with a production area of millions of mu and rich flower and tree resources.
The industrial base has driven the concentration of resource elements. Zhongshan has gathered high-end scientific research forces such as Sun Yat-sen University, South China Agricultural University and Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and a large number of high-quality flower talents are employed and started businesses in Zhongshan. After several generations of inheritance and efforts, Zhongshan flowers have developed from a characteristic culture to an industry and a landmark.
From industrialization to branding, with the completion and opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the construction of Shenmao Railway, Nansha Port Railway and Guangzhou Metro 18 Line in the south extension of Zhongshan will be accelerated, and the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Passage will be opened in 2024, which will usher in an unprecedented historical opportunity for Zhongshan flower industry.
The future of the Bay Area and the collision of the Flower Festival
As the largest, highest-grade and most influential national flower festival in China, China Flower Expo focuses on the rich achievements of flower industry development in China, reflects the long-standing flower culture in China, integrates ornamental, artistic, professional, commercial, interesting and knowledgeable features, and is known as the "Olympics" of China Flower Festival.
For Zhongshan, holding a large-scale national grand event will promote Zhongshan to achieve all-round economic and social upgrading from the high starting point of "Bay Area Era" and "Bridge Era", accelerate the building of "Bay Area Hub and Boutique Zhongshan" and move towards a more modern, open and prosperous international city.
In fact, with the deep foundation of flower and tree industry development and the obvious location advantage in the geometric center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Zhongshan has become the largest distribution center and storage trading market for all modern containerized and protected flower seedlings in subtropical and tropical areas of China in recent years.
2025 is the closing year of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and it is also a crucial year to lay a solid foundation for the new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. By then, the Shenzhen-China Corridor has been opened to traffic, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has completed its recent construction goals, and the framework of a world-class bay area and a world-class urban agglomeration has basically taken shape. Looking forward to the future, relying on Greater Bay Area's advantages such as location, transportation, trade, talents and information, Zhongshan has the opportunity to attract more top domestic and even global flower enterprises to invest and settle here, research and develop innovation, and cooperate with each other to form China's "Flower Valley" with brand building, standard setting and export mode.