Meiling Town, Zhao'an County, Fujian Province plans to revitalize the economic growth point of rural areas

In May of this year, the Fujian Provincial People's Government issued a three-year action plan to accelerate the construction of "Fujian on the Sea" to promote the high-quality development of the marine economy, and to build six billion-dollar industries including marine fishery, green petrochemicals, coastal metallurgy, marine information, shipping logistics, and coastal tourism.

Offshore oyster hanging base

Helping small oysters hatch a big industry

In recent years, Meiling Town, Zhao’an County, Fujian Province has accelerated the development of marine-related industries such as marine organisms, aquatic product aquaculture and processing, and distant-water fishing, relying on the advantages of abundant marine resources, making the marine industry an important engine to promote the economic and social development of Meiling Town.

The oyster hanging base in Meiling Town is the largest deep-water wind-resistant oyster hanging base in Fujian Province, with a hanging area of ​​130,000 mu and an annual output value of 650 million yuan

With the development and expansion of the marine industry, Meiling Town has cultivated many leading aquatic product processing enterprises such as Dongxin, Anbang and Xinggang

In recent years, Zhao'an County has actively practiced the thinking of industrial integration and development, and built a new system of "oyster +" industrial development

In August 2020, the China Aquatic Products Circulation and Processing Association, the Third Institute of Oceanography of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ocean University of China and other units held a review meeting for the "Hometown of Ecological Oysters in China" in Zhao'an County

Oyster processing workshop

Actively build a "Lingang Economic Growth Circle"

With the development of fishery in the port area in recent years, the scale of the wharf in Meiling Town has been unable to meet the needs of local fishery development and disaster prevention and mitigation.

In order to fully promote the rural revitalization strategy and build a leading town for high-quality development in the eastward expansion of the county, a characteristic town for the integrated development of agriculture, culture and tourism industries, and a strong town for the high-level development of marine economic clusters, Meiling Town actively builds the “Ecological Construction Year” activity as the main line.

At the same time, Meiling Town will build a coastal "fishery industry belt" centered on the Tiancuo first-class fishing port and the Chishiwan Central Fishing Port Economic Zone, track and promote transportation projects such as the Meiling Shugang Highway and the Coastal Channel, and actively connect and promote Sino-Han warehousing.

Today, Meiling Town, headed by the oyster industry, continues to drive the development of other related marine industries and the construction of supporting projects, effectively driving the economic income of the local people.

(Zhong Xiaotong and Chen Xianglin)

"China Food News" (version 08 on June 23, 2021)

(Editor-in-charge: Wang Han)