Chairman Mr. Yan Yu led a team to visit Yiliang County (of Zhaotong City) for gastrodia elata cultivation program on November 9th, along with Mr. Yan Jin, Vice President of the group; Mrs. Liu Yi, Deputy Executive General Manager of Administration & HR Center; Mr. Huang Hang, Director of INKYNESS Maternity Hospital; and other relevant officers.
Under the guiding of county government officers, the inspection team arrived at the Gastrodia Elata Cultivation Demonstrative Base located in Xiaocao Dyke. On the spot where gastrodia elata were dug out, Chairman talked with Mr. Mei Chun, the Vice County Mayor, and the farmers, in terms of the growing principle, planting environment, planting technology, economic value, as well as the present situation and prospect of gastrodia elata industry.
Related information from Yiliang County and farmers shows that gastrodia elata is rich in gastrodin,vanillin, protein, amino acid, and many trace elements, wihch has over 2000 years of history of being used as precious traditional Chinese medicine. In records on Shen Nong’s Herbal Classic, Compendium of Materia Medica and other ancient troditional Chinese parmacy boooks, the utilazition of gastrodia elata have functions like anticonvulsant, antirheumatic, sedation, relieve muscular spasm, analgesia, cure deficiency, suppressing hyperactive liver and calm endogenous wind. In China, gastrodia elata is mainly distributed in Zhaotong of Yunnan Province, Hanzhong of Shaanxi Province, Enshi of Hubei Province, and Qingping of Guangzhou Province. Gastrodia elata cultivated in Xiaocao Dyke is the best of the best with high medicinal value. Vice County Mayor Mei said Yiliang county government is actively guiding and generalizing cultivation and processing of gastrodia elata. There are great development potential in industrial development and investment in Yiliang county.
After visiting the cultivation demonstrative base, Chairman Yan accompanied by Vice County Mayor Mei headed to China Museum of Gastrodia Elata. In the research and development processing, Chairman Yan took interest in the provenace of Xiaocao Dyke’s gastrodia elata and the cultivation and protection of mycena and halimasch. Yan thinks, the quality of gastrodia elata relying on it’s provenance. The uniqueness of Xiaocao Dyke’s gastrodia elata cannot be invade or harass, and should be protect as priority. Mei also showed his agree and approval.
At 3 P.M., an Industry Symposia was held in the meeting room of Yiliang County Government, Zhao Jie, vice secretary of CPC Yiliang County Committee, Mei Chun, the Vice County Mayor, leaders of the relevant departments, Chairman Yan and members of the Group’s inspection team attended the meeting. The meeting was chaired by Mei.
During the symposia, Chairman Yan said Yiliang is his hometown. He always full of sentiment when think of his hometown, and felt much sincere every time come back. After the introduction of Shining Star Group, Li Heng Investment and Dian Merchant, he said, “General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the requirement of accurate poverty alleviation in the 19th National Party Congress, but how to do it? The first thing come into my mind is Yiliang and it’s gastrodia elata industry. So, I have two main purposes of this trip. First, I hope to be able to provide support for higher education and basic health care, such as sponsor poverty students go to school until they are able to choose a career; and provide training lessons for medical facilities and professional medical personnel in rural health clinics, etc. Second, I hope to deeply examine the gastrodia elata industry in Yiliang County. Through the combination of investment and poverty-alleviation industry fund, truly reducing poverty by means of industrial development, and making contributions to the economic development of Yiliang. The on-the-spot investigation this morning made us have a better understanding of gastrodia elata. I felt vast potential for the cultivation, processing and product development of gastrodia elata. We are glad to invest in Yiliang County, as long as it will helpful for it’s tax revenue and empolyment.
Vice Secretary Zhao and Vice County Mayor Mei expressed sincere thanks and welcome to Chairman Yan. They exchanged opinions and suggestions about special poverty alleviation, industry poverty alleviation and the gastrodia elata industry’s investment. They agreed and supported Chairman’s concept of investment. Subsequently, the leaders of the relevant departments of Yiliang County had an in-depth discussion with Chairman Yan on education, medical treatment, gastrodia elata, market, agriculture, engineering and other practical situations.
At the end of the seminar, the participants also went to the Pioneer and Innovation Park of Yiliang County. There they visited the crop production, processing and packaging workshops of Shan Yi Bao Biological Technology Co., Ltd.. Chairman asked datails with the person in charge of the company.
