April 17, 2010, by the China Vegetable Circulation Association and the people's government of Heze City, Shandong Province, Cao County People's Government, Cao County Asparagus Association to host the '2010 China (Cao County) International Asparagus Festival in Cao County People's Square was held ceremoniously. China Vegetable Circulation Association and provincial and municipal leaders of the relevant departments Gao Mudou, Li Yuhua attended the opening ceremony, more than 10,000 Cao County people attended the opening ceremony.
Cao County is China's high-quality asparagus main production area and processing and export base. At present, Cao County asparagus planting area of 200,000 acres, with an annual output of 180,000 tons of high-quality asparagus, accounting for one-sixth of the national asparagus planting area. The main varieties of asparagus are Uc800, Uc157, Asparagus Prince, Champion, ShuoFeng and so on. Its high-quality asparagus is pollution-free, standardized planting, has obtained the national green certification, on December 8, 2003 by the China Quality Agricultural Products Development Service Association named "China's asparagus township". According to statistics, there are 24 asparagus processing enterprises in Caoxian County, with an annual processing capacity of 190,000 tons, canned asparagus, asparagus drinks, asparagus seasoning, asparagus health care products and other series of products are exported to Europe, America, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions, and the annual export of foreign exchange earnings of 200 million U.S. dollars. As a leading company in asparagus processing industry, Juxinyuan Company was successfully listed in October 2009 in Australia.
This year's Asparagus Festival is organized with the tenet of "truth-seeking" and "high efficiency", taking bamboo shoots as a medium to show the advantages, promote cooperation and **** seek development. The asparagus festival is divided into celebration, economic and trade, culture and sports three major activities plate, arranged activities are press conference, opening ceremony and large square cultural performances, investment environment and project signing ceremony and other 12, from the central, provincial, municipal and other more than 20 news media interviews on this activity. In Qingdao (Cao County) Economic Development Zone set up an exhibition hall, booths *** counting more than 100, more than 90 exhibitors, exhibiting 30 types of products, more than 300 varieties. At the same time, the launch of asparagus industry economic and technical cooperation and other types of projects more than 100.