Xiangtan: A pair of bamboo chopsticks stirs up an industry.

Xiangtan: A pair of bamboo chopsticks stirs up an industry.

Xiangtan County, Hunan Province, gives full play to the "bamboo advantage", makes the "bamboo economy" bigger and stronger, and becomes a "green bank" for the local people to continuously increase their income, driving the people to increase their income and helping the rural revitalization.

Walking into the production workshop of the park, there are nervous and busy workers everywhere. The equipment in the workshop keeps running, and the production line is "fully fired". From bamboo cutting, blank punching and flat cutting to molding, disinfection, drying, polishing and selection, all processes are fully automatic or semi-automatic production. After a series of procedures, pairs of small "bamboo chopsticks" were born. About 5,000 pairs of bamboo chopsticks can be produced here every minute, and the daily output is about 3 million pairs.

Bamboo products represented by this small "bamboo chopsticks" are exported to Europe, America, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions. In 2022, the annual output value of the industrial park will reach 60 million yuan, and the foreign exchange tax will reach 6,543,800 yuan. It is estimated that the output value will reach 80 million yuan in 2023.

Cha 'ensi Town is undoubtedly the most typical bamboo resource town in Xiangtan County, with a total area of 136.77 square kilometers and a forest coverage rate of 68%. It is one of the 38 "Fast-growing and High-yielding Bamboo" bases in Hunan Province, with abundant bamboo resources. According to statistics, the bamboo area in the county is about 265,438+0,000 mu, mainly including Phyllostachys pubescens, Phyllostachys pubescens, Phyllostachys pubescens and so on. , distributed in the county 17 townships, most of which can be used as bamboo shoots, with high economic value. Among them, natural Lin Nan and Phyllostachys pubescens forests have obvious advantages, with a total area of about 1.5 million mu.

The town actively promotes the high integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, relies on the bamboo resources in the town, promotes the large-scale, intensive and scientific management of bamboo resources, supports and encourages the business model of "enterprise+cooperative+farmer", accelerates the construction of "one bamboo and three bamboo shoots" project, and realizes intensive, efficient and sustainable development. In March, 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs released the list of "Towns with National Characteristic Industries with Output Value of Over One Billion Yuan" in 2022, among which Cha 'ensi Town in Xiangtan County was listed.

In the next stage, the town will continue to focus on the development of bamboo industry, make comprehensive measures and make precise efforts to comprehensively improve the development level of bamboo industry. At the same time, we will do a good job in attracting investment around the construction of industrial chain, promote the "bamboo" level of e-commerce logistics and the deep integration of industries, move towards the road of deep processing and innovation of bamboo, and strive to realize the total output value of bamboo industry of 2 billion yuan and the number of large-scale enterprises 10 by 2025.

In recent years, Xiangtan county has comprehensively deepened the reform of afforestation, focusing on two articles on bamboo industry: Phyllostachys pubescens and Phyllostachys pubescens in suitable areas. Through the implementation of a new round of natural forest protection projects, public welfare forest construction and other projects, the bamboo forest land has reached about 230 thousand mu.

Next, Xiangtan County will continue to implement the strategy of "multiple parks in one district", relying on the rich bamboo resources and existing industrial advantages of Cha 'ensi Town, fully promote the development of Cha 'ensi Bamboo Industrial Park, constantly draw the blueprint for the development of bamboo industry, develop the primary processing of bamboo shoots, and build a demonstration base for bamboo shoot planting; Actively promote the inheritance and development of traditional quilting techniques, introduce deep processing enterprises such as bamboo chopsticks and bamboo utensils, and drive the bamboo and wood processing industry to change from primary processing to deep processing.