Building urban modern agriculture: Chengdu signs 1.7 billion yuan in deals in a single day
Chengdu has become a hot destination for investment in the central and western regions. At present, the number of Fortune 500 companies settled in Chengdu has reached 268. In 2014, Chengdu actually utilized 10.016 billion USD in foreign investment, ranking second among sub-provincial cities nationwide.
In modern agriculture, Chengdu has become an important high-quality agricultural product production area nationwide and an important agricultural product processing center and logistics distribution hub in western China. Ten major advantageous and distinctive industries - grain and oil, pigs, poultry, vegetables, flowers and nursery stock, fruit, tea, kiwifruit, edible fungi, aquatic products and Chinese medicinal materials - and many distinctive products such as kiwifruit, tea, edible fungi and Sichuan cuisine seasonings are sold well both domestically and abroad.
It is understood that, as a national pilot zone for comprehensive coordinated urban-rural reform, a national modern agriculture demonstration zone and a rural reform pilot zone, Chengdu achieved an agricultural added value of 37 billion yuan in 2014, an increase of 3.6%, and the per capita net income of farmers reached 14,478 yuan.
16 major deals signed on site
In developing urban modern agriculture, Chengdu will vigorously develop modern urban agriculture oriented toward intensification, led by high-end and branding approaches, and shaped by landscape and experiential forms. At the same time, Chengdu is also vigorously advancing the Internet Plus strategy to promote the transformation and upgrading of agriculture.
According to relevant personnel from the Chengdu Investment Promotion Commission, Chengdu will use internet platforms to integrate the city's rural tourism resources, develop urban leisure and sightseeing agriculture, innovate the circulation model of agricultural and sideline products through e-commerce, expand sales channels for agricultural and sideline products, and promote the interactive and integrated development of the tertiary industry.
It is understood that at the above-mentioned urban modern agriculture investment project promotion and signing ceremony, 16 major projects were signed on site, involving an amount of 1.703 billion yuan, including the aquatic science and technology park planned by Tongwei Co., Ltd. with an investment of 300 million yuan and the "Hanyuan Huaxiang" agricultural tourism project invested and built in Xindu District by Shanghai Hanyuan Culture Investment and Development Co., Ltd.