China-Cash Crops/Rural Revitalization

Shotlist

Manas County, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China – Recent (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
1. Aerial shot of tomato plants
2. Aerial shots of harvester in operation
3. Various of tomatoes
4. Aerial shot of harvester in operation
5. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Chen Wanhu, local, Wangjiazhuang Village, Manas County (ending with shot 6):
“With a growth trend like this, we can now plant 10 tons for 666.7 square meters of land. We can sell [tomatoes] at 50 cents per kilogram, which means that 666.7 square meters [of tomatoes can be sold at] 5,000 yuan (741.4 U.S. dollars). It can be said that our income this year is relatively good.”
6. Aerial shots of tomatoes, truck loaded with tomatoes moving
7. Various of harvester in operation, tomatoes
8. Aerial shots of harvester in operation

Ji’an County, Ji’an City, Jiangxi Province, east China – June 2022 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
9. Aerial shot of filed, house
10. Various of people harvesting grapes
11. Various of grapes
12. Workers packaging grapes
13. Aerial shot of stands, people
14. Man promoting grapes to consumer
15. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wang Huihua, chairman of Industry Association of Hengjiang Grape Farmers Professional Cooperative, Ji’an County (ending with shots 16-17):
“[We have] set up a new technical team and introduced new varieties. For example, the variety named sunshine rose is a kind of grape that produce standard fruits and basically each cluster of grapes is about 60 fruits – which is the best quality of the variety.”
16. Aerial shots of grape planting base
17. Various of grapes
18. Various of people harvesting grapes
19. Various of grapes
20. Aerial shots of grape planting base
21. Grapes

Nanyang City, Henan Province, central China – Recent (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
22. Aerial shot of lake, planting base
23. Various of crown pears
24. Various of crown pear trees, people talking
25. Various of people picking crown pears, pears in boxes, people transporting boxes of pears

Storyline

Farmers across China have gained abundant benefits and returns by planting cash crops in the process of achieving rural revitalization with the help of digitalization, mechanization and customized livestreaming sales.

Manasi County of Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous is now embracing a bumper harvest of tomatoes as harvesters are bustling back and forth in the fields dangling with red and maroon fruits.

Manasi County government has continuously optimized the planting structure, encouraged and guided local farmers to plant high-efficiency cash crops, which has greatly increased incomes for the locals.

“With a growth trend like this, we can now plant 10 tons for 666.7 square meters of land. We can sell [tomatoes] at 50 cents per kilogram, which means that 666.7 square meters [of tomatoes can be sold at] 5,000 yuan (741.4 U.S. dollars). It can be said that our income this year is relatively good,” said Chen Wanhu, a local from Wangjiazhuang Village of the county.

To further raise the efficiency of the harvest, local authorities have deployed harvesters and trucks to secure the swift transportation of the tomatoes. The 1,000 hectares of tomatoes are expected to be harvested by machines by the end of September.

Local farmers in Ji’an City in east China’s Jiangxi Province and Nanyang City in central China’s Henan Province are also gaining a bumper harvest of grapes and crown pears respectively. Those fruits, with the help from modern technology, have injected new energy into the rural revitalization.

As one of the poverty alleviation industries in Ji’an County, grapes in Hengjiang Town has helped 14,453 local households with nearly 50,000 people out of poverty.

This year, local government has established a technology service center to attract talents to develop the local grape industry.

“[We have] set up a new technical team and introduced new varieties. For example, the variety named sunshine rose is a kind of grape that produce standard fruits and basically each cluster of grapes is about 60 fruits – which is the best quality of the variety,” said Wang Huihua, chairman of Industry Association of Hengjiang Grape Farmers Professional Cooperative in Ji’an County.

At present, the plantation area of grapes in Hengjiang Town, Ji’an County has reached to 3,866.7 hectares, with an output value of 400 million yuan (59.3 million U.S. dollars), which directly helped more than 3,900 growers increase their incomes.

Farmers are seen busily picking crown pears in Tongbai County, Nanyang City of Henan. Green cards printed with code are hanging on trees as people can get access to information of the individual tree such as growing progress, watering and fertilization records by scanning the code.

By adopting new technologies in crown pear industry, establishing planting base and seedling base, local farmers’ income has been greatly boosted.