CCTV *** News Network): The Spring Festival is approaching, and Asia's largest fresh cut flower trading market, Yunnan Dounan Flower Market, has also entered the busiest time. Today (February 8) in the New Year, we went to the grassroots level, and we followed the reporter to go there to have a look.
This is the Kunming Flower Auction and Trading Center, and the information beating on the screen is the flowers to be auctioned on the day. Flower dealer Zhou Qi and flower photographer Lu Nianjun's goal today is to photograph more than 10,000 roses of more than 20 varieties.
This trading and auction center connects more than 30,000 suppliers on one end, and more than 3,000 varieties of fresh cut flowers in more than 40 categories are sold by dealers to more than 40 countries and regions around the world. Approaching the Spring Festival, the flower auction is more intense, the average transaction time is only three or four seconds, look at the head, fight the speed, but if you hesitate, you can't shoot the favorite cut flowers.
After 4 hours of fierce bidding, Zhou Qi auctioned most of the favorite fresh-cut flowers, and the remaining few hundred branches were missing, and they got the flower trading market next to them**.
When night falls, it is also the busiest time of the day when the flower market opens, and the market is already crowded with people within ten minutes of opening.
The Spring Festival is approaching, and the colorful and diverse New Year's flowers have become the protagonists, and roses, plums, and tulips are the "darlings" of the market. In the bustling **, there are not only retailers who pick flowers and choose flowers, but also tourists from Tiannan and Haibei, and the market shows a booming momentum of supply and sales. Now, about 31 million fresh cut flowers are sold here every day, and flower orders can be delivered to more than 200 cities across the country within 48 hours.
At more than 9 o'clock in the evening, Zhou Qi and the others finally made up for today's order after some flower inspection and bargaining, and then they had to hurry back to prune, pack and ship. For them, selling cut flowers is a race to the next level, and they can't afford to delay a moment. As the Chinese New Year approaches, they receive more than 4,000 orders a day, double the usual amount.
Zhou Qi and her husband entered the cut flower industry in 2018. With the hot market demand, their flower business is getting bigger and bigger, and they also invested in the construction of a tulip trellis in April last year. It's almost the New Year, and the little couple pasted Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters on the flower shed, for them, the new year is also full of new hope.