Yuanmou is a base for vegetable trading and the south-to-north vegetable transport program

Original title: The bustling Yuanmou vegetable trading market in Yunnan

On December 31, workers package fresh vegetables ready to be shipped north at the Yuanmou vegetable wholesale trading market.

Yuanmou County in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, is known as the "home of winter early vegetables." It plants 170,000 mu of winter early vegetables each year, with outbound sales reaching more than 300,000 tonnes. It is an important national base for the "south-to-north vegetable transport" program. In winter and spring, the Yuanmou vegetable wholesale trading market handles an average daily trading volume of more than 1,700 tonnes. Winter early vegetables produced in Yuanmou are sold to more than 200 large and medium-sized cities in 25 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across China, and exported to 16 countries and regions including Germany, Russia, Singapore and the EU. Many local farmers have increased their incomes and become better off by growing vegetables or working at vegetable bases. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Zongyou

On December 31, several workers load tomatoes for outbound sale at the Yuanmou vegetable wholesale trading market.

On December 31, several female workers sort fresh vegetables for outbound sale at the Yuanmou vegetable wholesale trading market.