Guangxi cultivates 1,000 cooperatives to assist poor villages

With the rise of rural e-commerce, farmers' professional cooperatives are shouldering the burden of agricultural product supply. The industry and commerce system of our region is seizing the opportunity to vigorously cultivate farmers' professional cooperatives, so that more poor farmers can also easily start businesses and become their own bosses.

For farmers to become bosses, they not only need product scale, but also need a business license to win more cooperation opportunities. In response to market needs, the Industry and Commerce Bureau of the Autonomous Region actively cooperates with departments of poverty alleviation, agriculture, forestry, and aquatic animal husbandry to cultivate and register at least 1 farmers' professional cooperative in each of the 1,000 poor villages expected to be lifted out of poverty this year, guiding farmers in poor villages to register and establish professional cooperatives, and opening a “green channel” at registration windows, with dedicated staff responsible for handling the registration of farmers' professional cooperatives in poor villages.

The Industry and Commerce Bureau of the Autonomous Region also requires industry and commerce cadres to go deep into poor areas to carry out “one-on-one” guidance on trademark cultivation, registration, and use, helping poor areas escape poverty and become prosperous. It is reported that the industry and commerce system across the region has now taken separate actions to provide “one-on-one” trademark guidance for farmers' professional cooperatives that are key targets of industrial poverty alleviation support, guiding market entities to register trademarks for high-quality specialty products, and making every effort to cultivate and develop advantageous leading industries; accelerating the formation of a new pattern of characteristic block-based economic development featuring “one industry per township, one product per village” or “one industry across multiple townships, one product across multiple villages,” enhancing the market competitiveness of products, and achieving income growth for the poor population as well as sustainable development of characteristic industries.