Rural specialties promoted by Xi

Honey
April 15, 2019
At Huaxi village of Zhongyi town, in the Shizhu Tujia autonomous county during an inspection tour in Chongqing

The bees here gather honey from hundreds of types of flowers growing on the mountains, Xi said.

A poverty alleviation workshop for honey processing in Huaxi village was put into production in October 2019. Now it has a daily production capacity of 1 ton, with an annual output value of 6 million yuan ($847,000), and the average annual income for the 200 beekeeping households is 15,000 yuan ($2,200).