In recent years, through the development of characteristic industries such as fruits, fungi, medicine, and wine, Xixia County has made a good job of "local specialties", which has driven more employment in the expansion of the industry and stimulated the endogenous power of the local people to increase their income and get rich.
On December 24th, in the factory area of Henan Province Health Palace Liquor Industry, colorful flags fluttered, lively and extraordinary, more than 300 people gathered here to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of Henan Health Palace Liquor Industry.
Henan Province Health Palace Liquor Industry is located in the beautiful scenery of Xixia County, which is known as "the treasure of water, the holy land of wine, the golden land of medicine", the congenital superior natural conditions, so that the perfect relationship between wine and medicine, created the unique birthplace of Xixia "Chinese health wine", and also gave birth to the health palace wine. Founded in 1933, Henan Yangshengdian Liquor Industry has developed into a comprehensive liquor enterprise integrating health wine, liquor and fruit wine. The company continues to develop and produce high-quality products, and the health liquor based on Chinese health wine and lotus liquor is well-known at home and abroad, and is exported to Malaysia, Hong Kong and other countries and regions. With the rapid development of the enterprise, the company has accepted nearly 300 local people into the factory for employment, broadening the employment channels of the local people.
In Xixia, in addition to liquor production and related industries such as Yangshengdian Liquor, the three characteristic industries of "mushroom and fruit medicine" represented by shiitake mushroom, kiwi fruit and dogwood have an annual comprehensive output value of more than 26 billion yuan, which also plays a very important supporting role in the county economy.
Wild kiwifruit in Xixia County has a history of 1,000 years of growth, and after more than 40 years of cultivation and development, it has built an artificial base of kiwifruit 1450,000 mu, with a comprehensive output value of 2.3 billion yuan, and the scale and output of the base rank among the top counties in the country. Xixia kiwifruit sells well in more than 40 large and medium-sized cities across the country, and the county directly participates in the planting, sales and deep processing of kiwifruit industry with 80,000 people, and 70% of the income of farmers in key producing areas comes from the macaque super industry.
Due to the large temperature difference between day and night and the moderate air temperature in the local winter, the shiitake mushrooms produced not only have good mushroom shape, but also have a high mushroom rate and good quality. At present, Xixia mushroom has become the country's largest standardized production base and production, processing and export base for shiitake mushrooms because of the planting of 300 million bags, and there are more than 200,000 farmers engaged in the production, processing and sales of shiitake mushrooms in the county, and more than 60% of the per capita net income of farmers comes from the shiitake mushroom industry.
Xixia County has a long history of dogwood planting, with an annual output accounting for about 70% of the country's total output, and is the "hometown of China's dogwood" and the largest production base of high-quality dogwood in the country. A large number of people are engaged in the planting, purchase and sale, storage, processing and other related industries of dogwood, and thus embark on the road to prosperity. At present, the related industries represented by Yangshengdian Liquor Industry, together with a large number of characteristic industries such as kiwifruit, dogwood, and shiitake mushrooms, have become the pillar industries for farmers in Xixia to get rich and increase their income.