The sericulture industry has the characteristics of less investment, quick results, and high efficiency, and is an important industry to promote farmers' income. Today (20), the 2019 China Silk Conference, hosted by the China Silk Association and co-organized by the Chongqing Cocoon Silk Industry Association, was held at the Century Jinyuan Hotel in Chongqing. The reporter learned from the conference that in 2019, Chongqing silkworm farmers' sericulture comprehensive income was 1.1 billion yuan. Chongqing sericulture is one of the top ten main producing areas of sericulture in China, with the number of seeds sown in eighth in the country and the number of cocoons produced in ninth in the country.
Last year, the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government issued the "Responsibility Decomposition Plan for Key Tasks and Objectives of Implementing the Strategic Action Plan for Rural Rejuvenation in Chongqing", and the sericulture industry was formally incorporated into the city's rural revitalization plan. The Municipal Commerce Committee formulated the "Implementation Plan for the Construction of a Large-scale and Intensive Sericulture Demonstration Base in Chongqing" and proposed the development goals of establishing, consolidating, radiating and driving a 50,000-mu large-scale high-quality sericulture base.
Chongqing is actively promoting the structural reform of the supply side of the cocoon and silk industry, taking the silk industry as a dominant industry with advantageous characteristics, rural rejuvenation, and a key industry for poverty alleviation.
In 2019, 21 districts and counties in Chongqing will grow mulberry and silkworms. The mulberry garden covers an area of about 730,000 mu (including ecological mulberry), 6 silkworm seed production units, 1 cold storage for silkworm seeds, and 19 companies acquired silkworm cocoons. In the whole year, 371,000 pieces were planted, producing 14,000 tons of cocoons, purchasing 11,000 tons of fresh cocoons, and the comprehensive income of silkworm farmers and mulberry was 1.1 billion yuan. The city's 17 silk industrial enterprises produced 364 tons of silk, 3.35 million meters of silk fabrics, and about 30,000 beds of silk quilts from January to October. The total industrial output value was nearly 400 million yuan.
The tussah mulberry industry has good economic and ecological benefits, and has become a popular industry for precision poverty alleviation in Chongqing. It is also an important project for returning rural migrant workers to find employment. Currently, Fuling, Qianjiang, Yunyang, Fengjie, Wuxi and other counties, more than half of the impoverished village of sericulture as tackling poverty choice. Among them, in 2019, 475 poor families in the Qianjiang District raised 6,784 silkworms and produced 4,865 cocoons. The total annual income from silkworm raising was 8.73 million yuan, and the average household income was 18,400 yuan. Golden Town, one of the city's 18 townships depth of poverty, in 2019 the new 6200 acres of mulberry, mulberry total area of 8685 acres. The town raised 3,018 silkworms, produced 2,142.9 cocoons, and farmers sold 39.291 million cocoons, with an average household income of 25,300 yuan.
Peng Heliang, a member of the party group and deputy director of the Chongqing Commercial Committee, said that the cocoon and silk industry has always been a traditional advantaged industry in Chongqing, and has played an important role in ecological protection, rural revitalization, and poverty alleviation. Next, we will continue to strengthen the industrial foundation, improve the industrial chain, optimize the investment environment, accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading, and promote high-quality industrial development.
