A bee farmer checks his bee hive at a bee product area in
Menyuan Hui Autonomous County, in Qinghai Province, on Thursday,
July 12, 2007. [Photo: Xinhua]
With clean air and lots of sunshine, the Menyuan Hui Autonomous
County in northwest China's Qinghai Province has become a major hub of
Chinese pollution-free bee production.
Menyuan Hui Autonomous County lies on the eastern side of Qilian
Mountain, the high mountain range that divides the northwestern
provinces of Qinghai and Gansu. Enjoying a high altitude
geographical location and long hours of daily sunshine, Menyuan has
a pollution-free natural environment which is ideal for growing
rape. Menyuan now grows about 20 thousand hectares of rape plant,
whose flowers are extremely beneficial for bee raising and honey
production.
Xinhua News reports that Menyuan has made great efforts in
recent years to develop its pollution-free bee product industry.
They have improved the living conditions of bee farmers, organized
honey purchasing networks and set up bee product processing
enterprises.
The move has also helped attract an inflow of additional bee
farmers from other parts of the country, and there has also been
increasing overseas investment in the local bee product
industry.
(CRI July 13, 2007)
