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Yizhou's silk industry grows in leaps and bounds

By (chinadaily.com.cn)
2017-07-20

Yizhou, a county-level city in Hechi, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, is an important industrial base for silk farming in China.

With silk farming one pillar of its agricultural industry, the city is focusing on building an industrial demonstration area for the sericulture industry. To further this aim, the local government has promoted its featured pattern of production and management, a system that will unite the resources of enterprises, cooperatives, farmers and the demonstration base.

The system will highlight integrated utilization of by-products generated by the silkworm industry, and will gradually establish an industrial chain consisting of farming edible mushrooms and mulberry silkworms, and silk reeling.

Yizhou's silk industry grows in leaps and bounds

Workers at a silk weaving workshop in Yizhou Economic Development Zone, Hechi, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. [Photo by Gao Dongfeng/Xinhua]

Yizhou's silk industry grows in leaps and bounds

A customer selects a silk scarf at a shop in Yizhou, Hechi, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. [Photo by Gao Dongfeng/Xinhua]

Yizhou's silk industry grows in leaps and bounds

A large statue of a silkworm and silkworm pupas stands outside a silk company based in Yizhou. [Photo by Gao Dongfeng/Xinhua]

Yizhou's silk industry grows in leaps and bounds

A female worker trims silk cloth at a production line. [Photo by Gao Dongfeng/Xinhua]

Hechi is located in the northwestern part of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region and the southern foothills of the Yungui Plateau.