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Friday, April 28 2023 - 17:33
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The First Shandong Liaocheng (Shenxian County) Green Vegetable Expo Kicked Off
LIAOCHENG, China, April 28, 2023 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--

On the morning of April 26, the first Shandong Liaocheng (Shenxian County) 
Green Vegetable Expo was opened grandly. With a theme of "Green, Technology, 
Health and Sharing", the expo has highlighted the achievement transformation, 
promotion and application of agricultural science and technology, with an aim 
to fully show the evolution and achievements of Shenxian County's vegetable 
industry. The influence of Shenxian County keeps rising as the "No. 1 county of 
vegetable in China", while the brand awareness of "Shenxian County's vegetable" 
keeps growing.

As an important window to showcase the development of Shenxian County's 
agriculture, the expo has been renamed as the first Shandong Liaocheng 
(Shenxian County) Green Vegetable Expo with the approval from the People's 
Government of Shandong in 2023, after it was held for ten times. The rank and 
scale of the expo this year has been raised greatly, which is playing an 
increasingly important role in such aspects as the achievement transformation 
of agricultural science and technology, the demonstration of advanced 
production modes, the promotion of practical technologies, the trading of 
famous, quality, innovative and special products and the exchange and 
cooperation at home and abroad and is becoming an influential agricultural 
event in China, according to News Office of the People's Government of Shenxian 
County.

The expo this year consists of six segments such as "Digital Agriculture", 
"Intelligent E-commerce" and "Green Agricultural Capital", attended by 350-plus 
enterprises, showcasing more than 2,000 types of products of over 800 brands, 
which has set a new record in the scale of exhibition. In order to enhance the 
exhibition visiting experience to the largest extent, the expo organizer has 
elaborately set up the two exhibition areas of "indoor exhibition of selected 
products and outdoor comprehensive exhibition" and created the nation's first 
outdoor physical "exhibition hall" of practical agricultural facilities and 
greenhouses. Meanwhile, there would also be other activities such as the China 
(Shenxian County) Summit Forum on the High-quality Development of Green 
Vegetables, an e-commerce live-streaming competition, a promotion event of 
quality products exhibited by Western Shandong, a Special Gourmet Festival and 
a competition fair of muskmelons so that the visitors could have a wonderful 
experience from different perspectives.

In recent years, Shenxian County has always prioritized the development of 
agriculture and rural areas and fully promoted the rural revitalization along 
the modernization path of agricultural development with distinctive 
characteristics, large-scale development, driven by leading enterprises and 
supported by science and technology. As a result, it has become a national 
major county wheat seed production, a national demonstrative area of 
agricultural modernization, a national demonstrative area of ecology and a 
national demonstrative area for the quality and safety of exported food and 
agricultural products. There is an area of multiple cropping of melons and 
vegetables over 1 million mu (1 mu equals to 666.67 square meters) across the 
county, with an annual output of over 5.20 million tons. There are 300,000 
solar greenhouses, 200,000 mu of small plastic greenhouses of different sizes, 
100,000 mu of outdoor vegetables, and a cultivated area of 6.50 million square 
meters of edible mushrooms. It has been honored as the "No. 1 County of 
Vegetables in China" as it is ranked first nationwide for the total growing 
area and output of melons, vegetables and edible mushrooms.

Source: News Office of the People's Government of Shenxian County

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   Caption: Special Gourmet Festival

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