Rushan tea industry upgrades with help from Shandong Rushan Rural Commercial Bank

Reporter Liu Ling

Correspondents Song Jialin and Li Xiaoli report

In recent years, Shandong Rushan Rural Commercial Bank has continuously adjusted its approach to supporting agriculture. While supporting traditional agriculture, it has increased credit lending and actively supported farmers in developing distinctive industries based on local resource advantages, effectively activating potential rural demand, inspiring farmers' awareness of development, and setting off a "wave of prosperity" locally. They helped upgrade the "Rushan tea" industry, one of Rushan's three treasures, making it one of the pillar industries for increasing farmers' incomes and injecting new momentum into boosting local economic development.

Since the beginning of this year, the bank has issued more than 13 million yuan in cumulative credit funds, increasing the average income of local tea farmers by 20,000 yuan per household. At the same time, the bank actively promotes electronic banking services, visiting tea farmers' homes to open mobile banking for them and guiding them to handle transfers and other financial business by mobile phone without leaving home, providing comprehensive services for tea farmers.