Cultivation history: Zanhuang County in Hebei Province has cultivated jujube for thousands of years. According to records, Zanhuang jujube was cultivated as early as the Yuan Dynasty. It has been widely cultivated in the Ming Dynasty and has been cultivated almost since the Qing Dynasty. Jujube trees are found in every household and have become an important woody crop. Dahedao Village, the first jujube village in Zanhuang, has an ancient jujube tree from the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. There are still several jujube trees that are more than a thousand years old in Renjiadong Village, Yangze Township. The Ming Dynasty classic "Duyilu" records: When Emperor Wu of the Tang Dynasty Li Yan was on the throne, Prime Minister Li Deyu (from Zanhuang) offered a spoon of Zanhuang jujube to the emperor, which had obvious effects on strengthening the body and delaying aging. Therefore, Zanhuang jujube was deeply loved by the emperor. Zanhuang jujube is one of the famous local products in Hebei Province. Its characteristics are: fresh color, thin skin, large size, small core, sweet taste, and good appearance, so it is known as "golden honey".
Production scale
Jujube cultivation has always been an important industry in Zanhuang County. With the joint efforts of generations of people, the jujube industry has developed rapidly. Especially since 2003, the county has combined the development of the jujube industry with the county's efforts to get rid of poverty and become prosperous. Based on the leader of the nursery stock industry in Zanhuang County, three new species, Zanjing, Zanfeng and Zanyu, have been bred. The varieties have been popularized throughout the county. Relying on policy mobilization, model promotion, profit-driven, and publicity, the enthusiasm of the people in the county for developing jujube orchards has been further increased. The scale of jujube orchards has been continuously expanded, and the jujube planting area in the county has reached 450,000. mu, accounting for a quarter of the county's land area, with a jujube output of 110 million kilograms. Excellent projects such as the Yangze 100,000-mu Jujube Science and Technology Demonstration Park and the Nanhao Science and Technology Demonstration Zone have emerged. The per capita income of people in the park is more than 5,000 yuan. The Science and Technology Demonstration Park has stimulated the enthusiasm of the people in the county to plant jujubes, forming a gratifying situation in which jujubes are blooming in an all-round way. The county has formed jujube markets such as Hueche, Zhaoyu, Xingle, and Luzhuang, and seedling trading markets such as Sanzhen, Xiancheng, and Yankang. In 2010, the county's jujube industry had a total annual revenue of 230 million yuan, an increase of 1,000 yuan in per capita income, accounting for one-third of the per capita net income, and an annual increase in county fiscal revenue of more than 18 million yuan, accounting for 22.6% of the county's fiscal revenue. The jujube industry has gradually developed into a pillar industry for Zanhuang's economic development and farmers' income increase. The golden jujube tree has become a veritable "county tree", achieving an organic combination of ecological, economic and social benefits. Zanhuang jujube has also settled in more than 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China, including Xinjiang, Shandong, Henan and Sichuan, making important contributions to local economic development and ecological construction.
Industrial management
Zanhuang County has established a farmers’ cooperative service organization: Zanhuang Jujube Association to serve Zanhuang jujube farmers in the market and inject money into the construction of Zanhuang jujube orchards. New life and vitality. More than 800 individual candied date processing households in the county have jointly formed six professional production cooperatives. Professional cooperative organizations represented by Rongkang Jujube Cooperative have actively applied for QS9000 standard certification, unified packaging, and unified production standards, which has promoted the development of Zanhuang candied dates. The industry has been upgraded. By 2010, 62 candied date processing companies in the county have obtained food production licenses (QS certification), with an annual processing capacity of 60,000 tons. Environmental certification of pollution-free fruit production areas of 430,000 acres has been achieved. Dried dates, A series of products such as red dates, donkey-hide gelatin red dates, Cantonese-style candied dates, golden candied dates, and date wine have entered markets such as Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, and are exported to countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, and Japan, and are favored by consumers from all walks of life.
Zanhuang County actively implements the off-site development strategy, taking advantage of Xinjiang’s geographical location advantages and special climatic conditions. In 2007, it established the Xinjiang Office of the Zanhuang County People’s Government in Aksu City, Xinjiang, with jujube as the The media has strengthened exchanges and cooperation between the two places in areas such as seedling supply and marketing, fruit tree management, labor export, and jujube sales. It has effectively made Xinjiang the second hometown of Zanhuang jujube, realized off-site production of Zanhuang jujube, and realized the Economic success has laid a solid foundation.