Despite the low temperature , Chongming Island , China ’s third - largest island at the estuary of the Yangtze River , is interfering in the New Year . locate in Hexing Village , Gangyan Town , in the centre of the island , the Shanghai Chongming Intelligent Ecological Flower Garden - a large levelheaded blossom seedling base project with a total investment of more than 220 million RMB - will formally be launched in April , which is more than half a class earlier than in the beginning schedule .

" Before the Chinese Lunar New Year , the automatize seedling output strain will be installed and commissioned , " say Jiang Wu , a doctor in her early 30s and the person in charge of the technology department in Shanghai Yuanyi Seedling Co. , Ltd.

The on - web site readiness and equipment mainly originate from Dutch technology , as well as crucial technologies and equipment from Italy , Denmark , and Japan .

Fabio Camisa , the project manager of the Italian Da Ros company that is working on the web site , said : " I have been to China dozens of prison term . This is my first visit to Chongming Island . Our seeding line has a good food market in the world . " The planting line selected this time is a new product with a eminent degree of mechanisation and planting efficiency . This labor can be used as a theoretical account to attract more attention from Chinese flower companies and has a upright demonstration effect . "

Chongming Island is known as the " green pearl " of the Yangtze River estuary . In the past , economic ontogenesis principally relied on Sir Tim Rice , citrus polish , and fishery . As a central section for the Yangtze River Economic Belt to move towards the ocean , the cultivation of flowers and greenhouse stocks in Chongming Island in the yesteryear was comparatively simple , including metasequoia , Turkish boxwood , narcissus , and tailflower . In 2016 , the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the Outline of the Development Plan of the Yangtze River Economic Belt . In response to the call of it in the Yangtze River lavatory , Chongming further explore the “ floral economy ” with international cooperation and explore novel energy for developing .

At present tense , the Chongming District of Shanghai is stepping up preparations for the Tenth China Flower Expo , which will be held in 2021 . The goal is to build Chongming into a " ocean of flower island " and a " never - end " efflorescence fair .

Chongming District Party Secretary Li Zheng usher in that in ordination to draw global in high spirits - quality modern agricultural endeavour , Chongming District has leave 10,000 hectares of terra firma for investment in the past two years , signed a series of cooperation agreement including modern flower planting , and will smartly develop urban modern agriculture , focus on building a modern bloom diligence cluster . It is estimate that by 2021 , the total planting region of ​​flowers and seedlings in the Chongming District will give more than 6,000 hectare , and sales will strain more than 1 billion RMB .

The Shanghai Chongming Smart Ecological Flower Garden Project includes a highly automated product line covering sowing , sprouting , seedling raising , transplantation , and merchant vessels . The production line logistics uses a fully reflex flower seedbed circulation organization , which is a leading technology in China . When the forum seam is fully function , it can indorse the simultaneous production of more than 400,000 tray . And if all the seedbed are full , it can agree more than 80 million flower seedling .

Chongming ’s near natural environment has attract domesticated and extraneous flower companies . Jiang Wu said : " We irrigate seedling through rain recycling , and employ river water supply to irrigate flowers for outdoor wake and trial planting . Chongming ’s good pee character is important to us . In production and logistics , the company also pay attending to environmental auspices and recycling , further to sustain the ecology of the island and form a virtuous circle . "

In the years when the Yangtze River Basin was under great protective cover , the Chongming District of Shanghai explicitly purport to " build a world - family bionomical island " and adopted a series of measures to strictly protect the environment . According to the " Thirteenth Five - twelvemonth Plan " for the development of it , by 2020 , the rural sewage treatment rate in Chongming will contact 100 % . Chongming also severely restricted the use of chemical fertiliser and pesticides in agricultural production , and the character of river systems will be importantly improved .

Chongming Island ’s great attracter to domesticated and foreign flower companies also lies in its unique position as a flower trade and transportation hub with the bridges and tunnel systems connecting Jiangsu Province and Shanghai City in the Yangtze River Delta part . Besides , it can be easily connected to many nation in East Asia via air and sea transportation .

Shanghai Honghua Horticulture Co. , Ltd. , a leader in chrysanthemum breeding and planting in China , plans to tot a large - scale planting stem in Chongming . In the yesteryear , this society ’s chrysanthemum seedlings had to be lift from multiple bases to Shanghai . After being pack in Shanghai , it was then shipped to Japan . It is believe that the Chongming base will fortify its output and logistics overseas .

According to the China Flower Association , Shanghai has become China ’s chief peak patronage hub . China has become the populace ’s largest bloom yield center , an important prime consumer and a flower import and exportation trade country .

With the increase influence of the Formosan prime market , some external flower company also be after to expand their byplay in China . The world ’s leading flower company and mental hospital are negotiating cooperation projects with Chongming .

" We can take from foreign counterparts , and competition has given us raw inspirits . " A large local flower grower in Chongming allege that everyone welcome these " globose collaborators . "

The operator of Shanghai Chongming Smart Ecological Flower Garden , Yuanyi Seedling Co. , Ltd , is move faster . At present , an expo greenhouse of about 2,300 m2 has been open to the public . Here , more than ten well - known Chinese and foreign training party expose G of potted flower pots , seedlings , and seeds , such as Poinsettia and Begonia .

In addition to the Smart Ecological Flower Garden , there are nearly ten international flower projection under building and preparation in Chongming , involving multi - national cooperation .

Gerard Lentjes from the famous company Armada from the " Flower Kingdom " , the Netherlands , told reporters earlier that the company is very concerned in establishing the " Dutch Flower Seedling R & D Center " project in Chongming and is willing to endue in technical cooperation in the fields of variety inquiry and letters patent protection .

Source : news.syd.com.cn