There is such a sea of flowers next to the desert

Xinhua News Agency, Urumqi, June 15th: There is such a sea of ​​flowers next to the desert

Xinhua News Agency reporters Sun Zhennan and Liu Hongxia

In the three summer season, southern Xinjiang, Hetian. Under the scorching sun, driving in Gobi, desert along the highway, is tired. Suddenly, a floral fragrance came. Outside the window, there was a rose sea ...

This is Yuantian, about 1,400 kilometers from Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in the southern edge of the largest desert Taklama Ganan Desert in my country.

It has a long history of planting roses in Yutian County. The local roses are the variants of Damascus roses. Thousands of years ago, this rose passed along the ancient Silk Road to Xinjiang. Now, tens of thousands of acres of roses have witnessed the great changes in this small town in Southern Xinjiang.

The 32 -year -old Aizi Turkhon, the little is in the village of Ganwustang, the Grak Township of Tenxian Odan. Right now, he is the director of a local area of ​​10,000 acres of rose planting demonstration parks. Ai Zizi, who worked in the park in 2014, witnessed the great changes that this "sweet industry" brought to the villagers.

"In comparison, planting roses is more laborious." Standing in the neatly arranged rose field, he told reporters that only one planting for roses, but the income brought by roses is considerable. Ai Zizi said that the income of roses is 3,000 yuan to 4,000 yuan per mu, which is "more earned than planting other crops."

Dong Yanjun, Secretary of the Yutian County Party Committee, introduced that there are currently more than 40,000 acres of roses in Yutian County. Here, roses not only beautify the environment, but also an important channel for farmers' income.

Planting roses also drove local employment. Gao Haiying, general manager of Yumado Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Xinjiang Yu Tian, ​​said that since its establishment in 2012, the company created more than 50 million yuan for local farmers, so that more than 1,000 households participated in rose planting, management, and picking. Following poverty and getting rich.

Together with the planting demonstration park, there are also deep processing of rose products. Ma Teng, manager of the Rose Planting Demonstration Park, introduced that by improving the added value of the product, the company made roses into foods such as rose sauce, roses, rose moon cakes, as well as daily necessities such as essential oils, masks, soaps.

"My wife is using the rose mask we produce in our local area. Children also like to use rose soap. , Also improve our quality of life. "

Schndry convenient transportation also helps roses to a wider market. Ma Teng said that in recent years, Xinjiang has continued to strengthen the construction of transportation infrastructure, and local products have been exported to first -tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. People in large cities have also used this rose product produced by this remote small city.

Yu Tian Wanfang Airport runs smoothly, and Ruo Ran is about to open, and more and more rose products that carry the happiness and hope of locals will go further. A better day, still behind ...

【Edit: Tian Boqun】

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