Pingnan aims to continue developing eco-economy

( chinadaily.com.cn )

Updated: 2013-06-04

Guo Yunwei heads an agricultural technology company and has lived in Pingnan for five years, growing tea-oil trees and also cherry trees.

In 2008, he leased a mountainous area covering 66.67 hectares for 30 years and now has three million tea-oil trees that are set to bring him a handsome profit.

Guo is successful partly due to the local program concerning the use of the mountainous areas to develop cyclical eco-agriculture projects.

[The county has deep processed agricultural products, such as cherries, nuts and poultry, to increase their value added. Now it has seen such sectors as high-altitude vegetables, fungus, bamboo products and raising livestock grow at a fast pace.

The county authorities have also pooled funds to increase forestation in order to support the development of eco-industries.

Edited by Lin Hong and Niva Whyman