Youxi, Sanming: Turning “bamboo” into gold, the bamboo industry breaks into a new world

The autumn wind is blowing, and there is a stream in central Fujian. The bamboo waves are surging, and the eyes are full of green.

Sanming Youxi County is rich in bamboo resources, with 55 species in 11 genera and a total bamboo forest area of ??703,700 acres. It is known as the "Hometown of Green Bamboo in China" and the "Hometown of Bamboo in China". In recent years, Youxi has taken multiple measures to develop the bamboo industry, achieving an output value of 4.85 billion yuan in 2021. The bamboo industry has become a characteristic key industry that improves the ecological environment, helps farmers increase income, and promotes economic development.

Cultivating bamboo:

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Recently, bamboo farmer Lin Zhaoying was busy digging in the Baizhu Garden of Houlou Village, Yangzhong Town. Bamboo seedlings, ready to be sold to bamboo seedling purchasers in Fuzhou.

Lin Zhaoying is a demonstration household of Youxi bamboo forest high-yield cultivation technology. He founded the Bamboo Forest High-yield Cultivation Technology Demonstration Park, established the Youxi County Baizhu Bamboo Industry Professional Cooperative, and contracted more than 700 acres of bamboo mountains with others.

?No special management and protection was done in the past. The amount and diameter of standing bamboo in the moso bamboo forest were small. Over the years, the county has provided a lot of technical guidance and organized many trainings for us in Zhejiang and other places. Only then did we know that we also have skills in cultivating bamboo. Having worked with bamboo for more than 20 years, Lin Zhaoying has mastered technologies such as high-yield cultivation, water diversion irrigation, and formula fertilization, and has become a soil expert in bamboo cultivation.

In order to implement the transformation of low-yield forests, I conducted a comprehensive deep plowing of the entire bamboo mountain, with a depth of 20 centimeters, and cleared away the bamboo stalks and old bamboo whips in the forest land. At the same time, "three cuts and three retentions" are implemented, that is, old bamboos, young bamboos and inferior bamboos are cut off, leaving mature bamboos, large diameter bamboos and high-quality bamboos. Then, according to actual needs, fertilization methods such as bunch fertilization, furrow fertilization, and hole fertilization are adopted. , the forest stand quality and bamboo quality were significantly improved. ?Through scientific management, the number of standing bamboos per acre in Lin Zhaoying's bamboo forest has increased from more than 60 to 250-300, and the diameter of standing bamboos has increased from the original 5-6 inches to an average of more than 9 inches now. High-quality bamboo Won the favor of deep processing enterprises inside and outside the county.

At present, Lin Zhaoying has introduced and cultivated more than 110 kinds of bamboo species with both economic and ornamental value in Baizhu Garden, and has improved the landscape facilities. The garden covers an area of ??220 acres. He is building a bamboo ecological science and technology park that integrates scientific research and teaching, production demonstration, tourism, popular science education and other functions, and is developing in the direction of industrial integration of "bamboo tourism" and "bamboo experience".

Lin Zhaoying’s journey of cultivating bamboo is the epitome of Youxi’s efforts to promote the development of the bamboo industry. In order to improve the yield of bamboo forests, Youxi has never stopped moving forward.

In recent years, Youxi has continuously improved the operating conditions of Zhushan. There are currently 3,361 kilometers of Zhushan roads, the road network density per 1,000 acres of moso bamboo forest is 4.78 kilometers, and a total of 22,000 cubic meters of Zhushan irrigation reservoirs have been built. , the irrigable bamboo forest area reaches 550.6 million acres. At the same time, efforts have been made to vigorously implement ecological transformation of bamboo forests such as mixing bamboo and wood, changing fertilization to no chemical fertilizers or applying organic fertilizers, changing deep plowing to splitting grass or reclaiming and tending, with the transformation area reaching 191,600 acres.

Green bamboo is Youxi’s characteristic bamboo species. In order to increase bamboo farmers’ enthusiasm for cultivating bamboo, the county government has issued the “Youxi County 2020-2024 Green Bamboo Planting Action Plan”. Arrange a subsidy of 3 million yuan for new bamboo planting, and provide financial small loan interest discounts to new bamboo planting farmers with good credit reports. At the same time, the completion of new bamboo planting tasks will be included in the township performance evaluation. ? said Zheng Ruiyu, director of the Bamboo Industry Station of Youxi County Forestry Bureau.

At present, Youxi has established a total of 335,000 acres of bamboo forest high-yield bases, with an average output value of more than 2,500 yuan per mu. There are 137,000 bamboo farmers, and the per capita income from Zhushan operations is 7,510 yuan.

Using bamboo:

Is the bamboo industry developing?

How valuable can a piece of bamboo be? Bamboo flooring, bamboo plywood, bamboo fragrant core, bamboo handicrafts, bamboo furniture, bamboo shoot processed products, bamboo charcoal products? Youxi has now formed 7 series and more than 300 kinds of deeply processed products, with an annual consumption of more than 15 million bamboos.

Fruit baskets, bamboo chopsticks, steamers, shoe racks? Walk into Fujian Yujinyuan Household Products Co., Ltd. located in the Mechanical and Electrical High-tech Industrial Park in Yangzhong Town. There are a variety of exquisite bamboo and wood products in the sample room. Preface display, production workshop, workers are rushing to make a batch of bamboo furniture to be shipped overseas.

Yujinyuan Company has a total investment of 10 million yuan, covers an area of ??30 acres, currently has 90 employees, and has obtained 16 invention patents. ?We are a long-established bamboo and wood processing company in Fuzhou, mainly producing high-end bamboo and wood products. As a major forestry county, Youxi is rich in bamboo and wood resources, is close to Fuzhou, and has convenient transportation, so we chose to further expand production here. In April this year, the company officially went into production. ? said Zheng Ruiyu, chairman of Yujinyuan Company.

Zheng Ruiyu introduced that bamboo is an energy-saving and environmentally friendly green material, and bamboo products are well recognized by overseas consumers. The company cooperates with bamboo farmers and bamboo enterprises in Zhongxian Town, Youxi County, and they complete the front-end product production. Then transported to the ocean for subsequent processing. After multiple processes such as engraving, polishing and painting, the added value of the product has increased nearly three times, and the company's annual output value can reach more than 8 million US dollars.

In Youxi, in addition to newly settled companies like Yujinyuan, there are many companies focusing on deep processing of bamboo.

Jingzhu Household Products Co., Ltd. insists on innovative research and development, independently develops and produces more than 400 products such as storage boxes, mops, and seasoning jars, and has obtained more than 20 national patents. The products are sold in more than 60 countries including Australia, Europe and the United States. ; Yongfengmao Paper has built an intelligent fully automatic manufacturing workshop, developed and produced new environmentally friendly bamboo pulp paper, and has been rated as a national high-tech enterprise and a Fujian Province "Specialized, Specialized and New" small and medium-sized enterprise; Fujian Fubo Bamboo and Wood Products Co., Ltd. has established independent production , cross-border sales one-stop model, becoming the first batch of bamboo and wood companies in the county to join cross-border e-commerce? Youxi currently has 89 bamboo shoot processing companies, including 15 large-scale companies with an annual output value of more than 50 million yuan. In 2021 The annual processing output value is 3.712 billion yuan.