Langfang, Shandong Province is a grape producing area, located in the southeast of Hebei Province, with flat and open terrain and a humid climate, where farmers have been planting grapes since the 80s of the 20th century. 
It has been planted for 40 years and is one of the more famous grape bases in the north. There are 25 professional vineyards in the region, with a total area of 100,000 acres. One of the largest scenic spots is called the Wisteria Garden, which is the peak season for picking in August every year. Founded in 1995, Wisteria Garden has been around for 30 years and is the most representative grape demonstration area in Langfang. The scale of the park is 60,000 acres, including 100,000 acres of high-standard grape land. 
Scientifically cultivated, suitable for the right place, and cultivated 25 marketable grape varieties. The annual output is as high as 30 million catties. It has a full taste, sugar and acidity, and is loved by consumers. Every August, it is the prosperous season of the wisteria garden, and the merchants gather in the past, and the sales channels are smooth. The sun is shining in August, and the Wisteria Garden ushers in the busiest season of the year. On the grape trellises all over the ground, the purple-red grapes are ripe and exude an attractive fragrance. The garden is busy with activity, and the growers sweat like rain, plucking batches of honey-like grapes from the racks, packing them into boxes, and transporting them to the fields. 
Mountains of grapes are neatly sorted and stacked. Uncle Wang, the owner of the plantation, has a happy smile on his face, this year's grapes are of high yield and quality, and I believe they can be sold at a good price. The first merchants soon arrived. They selected samples to taste and praised the good year and the high quality. After reaching an agreement, 20 tons were loaded and driven to Beijing on the same day. 
This batch of grapes was sweet and juicy, and it was sold out in the Beijing ** market, and the response was enthusiastic. Merchants rushed to the park to order, and dozens of trucks were shipped to surrounding cities every day. The mountains of honey grapes in the garden were quickly sold. Uncle Wang counted the account books, thinking that this year was finally looking forward to a bumper year. After 40 years of hard work and hardship, the joy of the harvest is rising. 
He is confident that this year's harvest season will be prosperous and profitable. Thinking of this, the smile on his face is even brighter. Uncle Wang happily counted the account books, calculating this year's rich income. However, the good times did not last long, and in mid-August, the merchants who came to buy suddenly broke out. 
The honey-like grapes were still piled up, but the buyers never showed up again. The busy scene of chickens, flying dogs and jumping in the park was quiet, and only the fruit farmers looked at each other. Uncle Wang frowned and checked the inventory, and he was surprised to find that nearly half of the grapes were still stranded in the park, totaling 1.75 million catties!This is already more than the inventory for the same period in previous years. 
Uncle Wang immediately sent a message to inquire about the situation of other cooperative parks, but received similar cold feedback - the unsold volume exceeded expectations. For a time, the fruit farmers faced an unprecedented predicament. They discussed the reasons in confusion and asked each other about the market. However, the harvest continues to grow, and there are very few merchants who come to inquire about it. 
The intense pace of work came to an abrupt end, and the joy of the past few days seemed to be in vain. There was an atmosphere of anxiety and overwhelm in the park. Uncle Wang calculated the time, and mid-August was the sweetest time for the fruits, which had already been the peak season for sales at this time. Now it is fruitful, but no one cares. Why is that?Uncle Wang frowned, silently speculating in his heart. 
Faced with the grim unsalable situation, Uncle Wang's first reaction was to run around looking for new sales outlets. He sent messages to his past customers and partners, asking if they needed new grapes. He is also looking for possible clues in the circle of friends. However, the responses were all disappointing - some customers said that there was sufficient inventory, and some said that demand had dropped due to the epidemic. 
Uncle Wang passed one after another, and in the end, his face became more and more ugly. At the same time, the grapes in the park are still growing rapidly. Uncle Wang carefully counted the specific data and drew the growth curve. He anxiously sought advice from experts from the research institute on countermeasures, hoping to find a breakthrough. However, experts also say that the market situation is complex and it is impossible to judge the trend. Uncle Wang's hanging heart is so confusing.
Just when Uncle Wang was anxious, the owners of other cooperative parks also reported that the situation was similar to that of Wisteria Garden, which was experiencing serious sales disruptions and inventory backlogs. Everyone expressed unprecedented confusion and ran into walls everywhere. In stark contrast to the soaring sentiment of growers, the lukewarm reaction of the market. Faced with a serious unsalable state, Uncle Wang decided to analyze the root cause in depth. He first inspected the epidemic prevention and control situation and found that this year's policies tend to be flexible, and the impact on the circulation of fruits and vegetables is limited.
He then surveyed the customer's inventory and found that there was no significant change in overall demand this year. All this shows that the cold market is not caused by the external environment. Uncle Wang found that this year, not only the wisteria garden had a bumper harvest, but other cooperative parks also produced gratifying results. Taken together, the total grape production in Langfang increased by as much as 20% compared to previous years, seriously exceeding the market's absorption capacity.
At the same time, he also noticed that the grape industry is also expanding rapidly across the country, as a result of advances in planting technology. The growth rate of consumption in the downstream market is far from keeping up with the expansion of upstream production. It can be said that the rapid expansion of the grape industry has directly led to the disconnection between production and marketing. During the transition period in August, this disconnect manifested itself in severe market disruptions and overstocking.
And this is just the beginning, and the situation of oversupply in the market will continue in the future. Uncle Wang's heart rose worried, and he realized that the bottleneck period of the industry's development had come. How to revitalize the market and rebuild the balance between production and marketing is a difficult problem for every fruit farmer. We all have to come together to get through this. When Uncle Wang realized the seriousness of the problem, he couldn't help but be in awe. A farmer who has been growing for 40 years probably knows better than anyone that traditional farming is being put to the test.
Uncle Wang has seen too many market fluctuations. He has gone through the wind and frost, and he still carried it. But this time, he had a hunch that the situation might be more dire than ever. Once the market cannot be opened at this time, the remaining fruit is likely to face the doom of rotting. This is undoubtedly an unbearable loss for the park.
Uncle Wang couldn't help but clench his cool hands. He knew that this was not just a battle for him. Achieving a good harvest is the brainchild of all fruit growers, and there is nothing more sad than that that no one cares about it now. He couldn't bear to let everyone's sweat flow in vain come to naught. So, Uncle Wang made a difficult decision. He launched a park-wide initiative, calling on growers to unite and save themselves. And he issued a public request for help through various channels, calling on all sectors of society to lend a helping hand to the Langfang grape industry.
Surviving in the cracks is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. Uncle Wang chose to face the predicament rather than run away. He hopes that the entire industry can complete the transformation in this process and move towards a brighter future. We also sincerely wish them the support of all sectors of the community to tide over the difficulties together.