Xiangtan: a pair of bamboo chopsticks pick up an industry

Xiangtan: a pair of bamboo chopsticks to pick up an industry

Xiangtan County, Hunan Province, give full play to the "bamboo advantage", bigger and stronger "bamboo economy", full of green bamboo has become a local people's sustained income generation. Green Bank", driving the masses to increase income and help revitalize the countryside.

Walking into the park's production workshop, workers everywhere are nervous and busy figure. Workshop equipment running non-stop, the production line "full fire", from the broken bamboo, punching embryo, flat head to molding, disinfection, drying, polishing, selection, all processes are fully automatic or semi-automatic machine production. After one procedure after another, a pair of small "bamboo chopsticks" are born. Here, about 5,000 pairs of bamboo chopsticks can be produced every minute, with a daily output of about 3 million pairs.

The small "bamboo chopsticks" as the representative of the bamboo products are exported to Europe, America, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions, the industrial park in 2022 annual output value of 60 million yuan, foreign exchange tax revenue of 1 million yuan, is expected in 2023 annual output value will reach 80 million yuan.

The town of Chain Temple is undoubtedly Xiangtan County's most typical bamboo forest resources town, the town's total area of 136.77 square kilometers, forest coverage rate of 68%, is one of the 38 "fast-growing and productive bamboo" base in Hunan Province, rich in bamboo forest resources. According to statistics, the county's bamboo area of about 210,000 acres, there are mainly moso bamboo, Nanzhu bamboo, square bamboo, water bamboo and other bamboo species, the county's 17 townships are distributed, most of which can be bamboo shoots and timber dual-purpose, with a high economic value. Among them, the natural heather forest and moso bamboo forest advantage is more obvious, with a total area of about 150,000 acres.

The town actively promote a high degree of integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, relying on the town's nanobamboo resources, promote bamboo resources to the scale, intensification, scientific management, support and encouragement of "enterprises + cooperatives + farmers" business model, accelerate the "one bamboo three bamboo shoots

The next stage, the town will continue to focus on the development of the bamboo industry, comprehensive policy, precise force, comprehensively enhance the level of bamboo industry development. At the same time, around the construction of the industrial chain to do a good job of attracting investment articles, boosting e-commerce logistics "bamboo" level, the depth of integration of industry, towards the bamboo deep processing innovation road, and strive to 2025, the total output value of the bamboo industry up to 2 billion yuan, the size of the enterprise up to 10.

In recent years, Xiangtan County comprehensively deepen the reform of forestation, in the appropriate areas focus on bamboo and moso bamboo two bamboo industry articles, through the implementation of a new round of natural forest protection project public welfare forest construction projects, has made the bamboo woodland reached about 230,000 acres. The development of traditional gimlet craft inheritance, the introduction of bamboo chopsticks, bamboo utensils supplies and other deep processing enterprises, driving the bamboo wood processing industry from the primary processing to the transformation of deep processing.