Original title: Lao Guo’s Vegetable Selection Notes
Yunnan All-Media Reporter Tang Hongmei from the Urumqi Evening News
,498 phone address book friends and 7,536 WeChat friends. Most of the phone calls or WeChat messages are related to vegetables.This is Guo Lianying’s mobile phone address book. He has his phone on 24 hours a day, for fear of missing any phone call or WeChat message.
6-year-old Guo Lianying is originally from Henan. He started working with vegetables at the age of 18. Choosing dishes is what he has been doing for 13,870 days in the past 38 years.As a major operator of Jiuding Agricultural Products Wholesale Market, this year Guo Lianying, together with several other vegetable companies in Urumqi, established Xinjiang Xinjiang Vegetable Supply Chain Co., Ltd. As the chairman, he is more interested in the word "choosing vegetables" A responsibility.
From November 29th to December 2nd, under the leadership of the Urumqi Vegetable Association, Guo Lianying and his partners came to Yuxi City, Yunnan Province to select vegetables.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, leeks and other vegetables are some of the best-selling dishes in Urumqi in winter, and they are also the dishes that Guo Lianying focused on this time.
On November 30, at a vegetable planting base in Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, Guo Lianying (middle) and the head of the Urumqi Vegetable Association and partners inspected the growth of tomatoes. Photographed by Tang Hongmei, a special Yunnan all-media reporter from the Urumqi Evening News
Xinjiang’s sky is filled with snowflakes in December, but there is no winter in Yunnan.
In several villages in Xinping County, Yuxi City, driving along the winding mountain road, you can see layers of mountainous areas growing winter vegetables. Farmers grow different vegetables according to different altitudes and temperatures.
The tomatoes planted this season in Liulong Village, Xinhua Township have begun to be harvested.
"These tomatoes are of good variety, clean in appearance and without pitting." Under the leadership of village party secretary Li Tianrong, Guo Lianying and company partner Xia Bin inspected the quality of the tomatoes.
Li Tianrong said that in addition to growing tomatoes, the village also grows peas, eggplants, green beans, okra and other dishes, all of which can be cooperated with Guo Lianying, eliminating the need for second-hand vendors and ensuring the villagers' sales and income.
When going out to find the source of vegetable supply, Guo Lianying not only checks the appearance of vegetables, but also understands basic guarantees such as planting scale, warehousing, and logistics.
The shelf life of vegetables is generally about 3 days. It takes exactly 3 days on the road from Yunnan to Urumqi via car preservation and transportation. This means that once the vegetables are picked, they have to be on the road immediately.
"This can ensure that after the vegetables arrive at the primary wholesale market in Urumqi, they will go through secondary wholesale and retail before reaching consumers' hands, and they will be fresh." Guo Lianying said that he had suffered the loss of not understanding the market, so he strictly controls the market. It is to follow the market demand.
Guo Lianying has been engaged in the vegetable wholesale business in Xi'an for more than ten years. When he came to Urumqi to do vegetable business in 1996, he initially did not understand the demand for vegetables in the Xinjiang market in winter, causing damage to the vegetables and losing all his savings.
"In order to restart the vegetable wholesale business, I sold the cattle in my hometown and continued to invest. I wanted to do this well." Guo Lianying said that since around 2000, he has been shopping for vegetables in Gansu, Yunnan, Hainan and other places, and directly Connecting with farmers and planting bases is to introduce more fresh vegetables to the Xinjiang market.
Over the years, Guo Lianying has had four to five hundred vegetable-related partners in Yunnan alone, involving planting, transportation, processing and other aspects of the industry chain.
"Lao Guo, I heard that you are coming to Yunnan. You must come to our base to have a look." Along the way, Guo Lianying kept receiving such calls.
In the Cold Chain Logistics Park of Smart Agricultural Town, Yangguang Town, Tonghai, Yuxi City, Guo Lianying’s old customer Guo Hao has been supplying garlic sprouts, lentils, peas and other dishes to the Urumqi market for a long time.
"The quality of your garlic sprouts is still so good, please ship them as planned." Guo Lianying picked up a handful of garlic sprouts with dewdrops and praised them.
After learning that Urumqi had set up the "Urumqi Outer Border Winter and Spring Vegetable Basket Supply Base" in Xinping County, Li Jinfa, chairman of Yuxi Yunbang Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., was not idle for a moment.
Li Jinfa accompanied him throughout the entire process, from visiting the planting bases to sorting centers and warehousing and logistics bases, to recommending agricultural product smart logistics parks under construction.
In a smart logistics park covering an area of 60 acres, a 6-story office building and a cold chain warehouse have been built, and construction of several other sorting centers and cold chain warehouses is under way.
"These are built to ensure supply in Xinjiang, with a daily processing capacity of 400 tons. Each batch of vegetables can be traced through the intelligent system." Li Jinfa said that it is expected that the first batch of sorted vegetables will be available within this month. It will be transported from here to Urumqi, and the second phase of the project will soon start construction.
After choosing dishes for four consecutive days, Guo Lianying saw the sincerity of Yuxi, Yunnan. In his view, Yuxi's sincerity comes from its optimism about Urumqi and even the entire Xinjiang market.
"My task is to control the entry of vegetables so that more fresh vegetables can reach the Xinjiang market." Guo Lianying said that this year he has another task. With the advancement of the construction of the Xinjiang Free Trade Pilot Zone, he and the cooperation The partners have built a farmers market in Qingshuihe Town, Huocheng County, Yili, and also plan to invest in building a storage center in Horgos. They want to transport more local agricultural and sideline products from Xinjiang and fruits and vegetables from Yunnan to neighboring countries, and then local Featured products shipped back.
“I have been selling vegetables all my life, and I want to do it better,” Guo Lianying said.
Original title: Lao Guo’s Vegetable Selection Notes
Yunnan All-Media Reporter Tang Hongmei from the Urumqi Evening News
,498 phone address book friends and 7,536 WeChat friends. Most of the phone calls or WeChat messages are related to vegetables.This is Guo Lianying’s mobile phone address book. He has his phone on 24 hours a day, for fear of missing any phone call or WeChat message.
6-year-old Guo Lianying is originally from Henan. He started working with vegetables at the age of 18. Choosing dishes is what he has been doing for 13,870 days in the past 38 years.As a major operator of Jiuding Agricultural Products Wholesale Market, this year Guo Lianying, together with several other vegetable companies in Urumqi, established Xinjiang Xinjiang Vegetable Supply Chain Co., Ltd. As the chairman, he is more interested in the word "choosing vegetables" A responsibility.
From November 29th to December 2nd, under the leadership of the Urumqi Vegetable Association, Guo Lianying and his partners came to Yuxi City, Yunnan Province to select vegetables.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, leeks and other vegetables are some of the best-selling dishes in Urumqi in winter, and they are also the dishes that Guo Lianying focused on this time.
On November 30, at a vegetable planting base in Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, Guo Lianying (middle) and the head of the Urumqi Vegetable Association and partners inspected the growth of tomatoes. Photographed by Tang Hongmei, a special Yunnan all-media reporter from the Urumqi Evening News
Xinjiang’s sky is filled with snowflakes in December, but there is no winter in Yunnan.
In several villages in Xinping County, Yuxi City, driving along the winding mountain road, you can see layers of mountainous areas growing winter vegetables. Farmers grow different vegetables according to different altitudes and temperatures.
The tomatoes planted this season in Liulong Village, Xinhua Township have begun to be harvested.
"These tomatoes are of good variety, clean in appearance and without pitting." Under the leadership of village party secretary Li Tianrong, Guo Lianying and company partner Xia Bin inspected the quality of the tomatoes.
Li Tianrong said that in addition to growing tomatoes, the village also grows peas, eggplants, green beans, okra and other dishes, all of which can be cooperated with Guo Lianying, eliminating the need for second-hand vendors and ensuring the villagers' sales and income.
When going out to find the source of vegetable supply, Guo Lianying not only checks the appearance of vegetables, but also understands basic guarantees such as planting scale, warehousing, and logistics.
The shelf life of vegetables is generally about 3 days. It takes exactly 3 days on the road from Yunnan to Urumqi via car preservation and transportation. This means that once the vegetables are picked, they have to be on the road immediately.
"This can ensure that after the vegetables arrive at the primary wholesale market in Urumqi, they will go through secondary wholesale and retail before reaching consumers' hands, and they will be fresh." Guo Lianying said that he had suffered the loss of not understanding the market, so he strictly controls the market. It is to follow the market demand.
Guo Lianying has been engaged in the vegetable wholesale business in Xi'an for more than ten years. When he came to Urumqi to do vegetable business in 1996, he initially did not understand the demand for vegetables in the Xinjiang market in winter, causing damage to the vegetables and losing all his savings.
"In order to restart the vegetable wholesale business, I sold the cattle in my hometown and continued to invest. I wanted to do this well." Guo Lianying said that since around 2000, he has been shopping for vegetables in Gansu, Yunnan, Hainan and other places, and directly Connecting with farmers and planting bases is to introduce more fresh vegetables to the Xinjiang market.
Over the years, Guo Lianying has had four to five hundred vegetable-related partners in Yunnan alone, involving planting, transportation, processing and other aspects of the industry chain.
"Lao Guo, I heard that you are coming to Yunnan. You must come to our base to have a look." Along the way, Guo Lianying kept receiving such calls.
In the Cold Chain Logistics Park of Smart Agricultural Town, Yangguang Town, Tonghai, Yuxi City, Guo Lianying’s old customer Guo Hao has been supplying garlic sprouts, lentils, peas and other dishes to the Urumqi market for a long time.
"The quality of your garlic sprouts is still so good, please ship them as planned." Guo Lianying picked up a handful of garlic sprouts with dewdrops and praised them.
After learning that Urumqi had set up the "Urumqi Outer Border Winter and Spring Vegetable Basket Supply Base" in Xinping County, Li Jinfa, chairman of Yuxi Yunbang Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., was not idle for a moment.
Li Jinfa accompanied him throughout the entire process, from visiting the planting bases to sorting centers and warehousing and logistics bases, to recommending agricultural product smart logistics parks under construction.
In a smart logistics park covering an area of 60 acres, a 6-story office building and a cold chain warehouse have been built, and construction of several other sorting centers and cold chain warehouses is under way.
"These are built to ensure supply in Xinjiang, with a daily processing capacity of 400 tons. Each batch of vegetables can be traced through the intelligent system." Li Jinfa said that it is expected that the first batch of sorted vegetables will be available within this month. It will be transported from here to Urumqi, and the second phase of the project will soon start construction.
After choosing dishes for four consecutive days, Guo Lianying saw the sincerity of Yuxi, Yunnan. In his view, Yuxi's sincerity comes from its optimism about Urumqi and even the entire Xinjiang market.
"My task is to control the entry of vegetables so that more fresh vegetables can reach the Xinjiang market." Guo Lianying said that this year he has another task. With the advancement of the construction of the Xinjiang Free Trade Pilot Zone, he and the cooperation The partners have built a farmers market in Qingshuihe Town, Huocheng County, Yili, and also plan to invest in building a storage center in Horgos. They want to transport more local agricultural and sideline products from Xinjiang and fruits and vegetables from Yunnan to neighboring countries, and then local Featured products shipped back.
“I have been selling vegetables all my life, and I want to do it better,” Guo Lianying said.
Source: Urumqi Evening News