On May 27th, 2024, journalists from 18 media entities located in over 15 countries and regions joined China’s western development program and visited Chonqing’s Three Gorges Orange Sea.
The “Three Gorges Orange Sea” is located in the east of Zhongxian County, on the north bank of the Yangtze River, in Youyi Village, Tujing Township, 18 KM away from Zhongxian County and 10 KM away from the national 4A scenic spot, Shibaozhai, which is the hometown of Mr. Ma Zhitu, a famous modern writer, revolutionary and calligrapher. Because Mr. Ma was shocked by the vastness of this rolling “orange sea” on his way back to his hometown, he gladly wrote the beautiful name of “Three Gorges Orange Sea” and named it.
The base orchard has four major wonders: first, the wonders of flowers and fruits in the same tree. Every year in mid-April, there are green leaves surrounded by yellow fruits, yellow fruits dotted with white flowers, and white flowers emit fragrance, when visitors enter the orange grove, they will have a feeling of relaxation. Every year in April, here is a sea of people and traffic. The second is the spectacle of father and son together. Fruit ripening in mid-May, when the mature fruit is still picking, young fruit was born, as if the father and son were in the same hall of the spectacle. Third, the fruit is a long period of hanging fruit. Flowering in April each year, the following May fruit maturity, fruit on the tree for more than a year. Fourth, the peel is “three green and three yellow”. Citrus rind from May to mid-December is the green rind, to late December rind from green to yellow, in mid-May begins to change from yellow to green. However, its flesh is still ripe in May.
In order to further improve the added value of the citrus industry, and to create efficient agriculture, the Three Gorges Orange Sea is committed to the export of orange, and Chongqing Payson Hundred Orange Juice Co., Ltd. is one of its manufacturers.
The Payson Hundred Orange Juice Co. is China’s first non-concentrated orange juice reduction enterprise, is a national key leading enterprise of agricultural industrialization, national agricultural comprehensive development leading enterprises, national leading enterprises for poverty alleviation, national intellectual property rights advantageous enterprises; the State Council, the implementation of three building committee “Three Gorges reservoir area citrus industry development and Chongqing Municipal millions of tons of citrus industrialization project key The company has been a leading enterprise in the Three Gorges area since 1995.
The company has been engaged in the citrus industry in the Three Gorges Reservoir area since 1995 and has focused on the citrus industry for more than 20 years. From the Tenth Five-Year Plan to the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan, the company has undertaken more than 20 national projects in the fields of citrus variety selection, seedling raising, planting, processing, and harmless treatment of waste peels and dregs. During the period from the “Tenth Five-Year Plan” to the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan”, the company has undertaken more than 20 national and Chongqing municipal science and technology research projects, constructed the first “National Citrus Engineering and Technology Research Center” in China’s fruit industry, built the world’s largest citrus detoxification container nursery base, and established a resource nursery of 398 applicable citrus varieties for the purpose of preserving biodiversity and tapping the commercial value of citrus, from which the company selects high-quality and sweet varieties suitable for processing in the world. From these, we have selected high-quality sweet oranges suitable for processing in the world, created 220,000 mu of high-standard orchards synchronized with the international standard for early, mid-and late-maturing oranges, and driven more than 100,000 fruit farmers, including more than 30,000 immigrants from the Three Gorges Reservoir area, to become rich and stable. The whole industry chain from a seed to a glass of orange juice has been established, and Payson 100 NFC orange juice with 100% zero additives has been awarded the Famous Trademark of China and become the state banquet drink of the Great Hall of the People for 15 consecutive years. Orange juice and orange peel are exported to Europe and Asia, breaking through the zero export of Chinese orange juice.
General Secretary Xi emphasized during his visit to Chongqing, Chongqing set big cities, big rural areas, big mountains, big reservoir area in one, we should vigorously promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas, and develop ecological characteristics of agriculture in accordance with the mountainous terrain; in-depth implementation of major technological transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry and large-scale equipment renewal project, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries; Three Gorges Reservoir Area should be based on the characteristics of the advantages of the resources, to promote the development of industrial agglomeration, and adhere to the supplementary chain, based on the reservoir area Characteristics of agriculture, the implementation of Chongqing’s “hundreds of billions of advantageous characteristics of industrial cultivation action” to accelerate the “breeding plus” “production, supply and marketing” comprehensive upgrading.
Chongqing has a long history of citrus cultivation, is one of the most suitable areas for citrus production in the world, is the most complete area of the national citrus industry chain, the core area of the national citrus technological innovation, the advantageous area of the national late-maturing citrus cultivation, the world’s first citrus seedling breeding capacity, the first breeding capacity in the whole country, the first germplasm resources stock in Asia and the second in the world, is the first and the only citrus non-epidemic area in the country and is the core area of the advantageous citrus industry belt in the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River.
Global Times Online
