JINSHA: Deep in the rolling mountains along both sides of the Jinsha River in Lijiang, southwest China’s Yunnan province, people in a riverside village are busying pruning mango trees after their mangoes have all been sold out.
Making the most of its abundant resources of light, heat, and water, Longjing village in Huaping county has been making great efforts to boost the development of mango industry in recent years. In 2019, the mango planting area of Longjing village reached 15,000 mu (1,000 hectares), and the annual per capita net income of the village rose to 16,000 yuan (about $2,444.8). As of October 2020, all the impoverished people in Longjing village had got rid of poverty.
“Since we intensified efforts to improve the quality of the fruit and our work efficiency, the mango production of our village has doubled that of last year.
That has made everyone work harder and become more confident about the development of the industry,” said Li Xiangyang, Party chief of the village. In the past, coal industry was the pillar industry of Huaping county.
The output value of coal industry even accounted for 70 percent of the total industrial output value of the county for a time. – Agencies
