Lotus root industry boosts local economy in Honghu City, China’s Hubei
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Lotus seeds are pictured at a lotus root innovation base in Honghu City, central China’s Hubei Province, Sept. 16, 2026. Honghu lotus root is a signature product of Hubei Province. In 2025, the lotus root cultivation area in Honghu City reached 225,000 mu (15,000 hectares), with a total output of 320,000 tonnes.
Local authorities have developed the lotus root industry, leveraging technological resources to breed new varieties, establishing standards covering the entire production process to ensure quality, and promoting cooperation among enterprises, cooperatives and farmers. These efforts have created jobs and boosted local incomes. (Xinhua/Lu Jinbo)
This photo taken on Sept. 16, 2026 shows a bouquet made with lotus pods, lotus roots and lotus flowers at a lotus root innovation base in Honghu City, central China’s Hubei Province. Honghu lotus root is a signature product of Hubei Province. In 2025, the lotus root cultivation area in Honghu City reached 225,000 mu (15,000 hectares), with a total output of 320,000 tonnes.
Local authorities have developed the lotus root industry, leveraging technological resources to breed new varieties, establishing standards covering the entire production process to ensure quality, and promoting cooperation among enterprises, cooperatives and farmers. These efforts have created jobs and boosted local incomes. (Xinhua/Lu Jinbo)
People harvest lotus roots at a lotus root innovation base in Honghu City, central China’s Hubei Province, Sept. 16, 2026. Honghu lotus root is a signature product of Hubei Province. In 2025, the lotus root cultivation area in Honghu City reached 225,000 mu (15,000 hectares), with a total output of 320,000 tonnes.
Local authorities have developed the lotus root industry, leveraging technological resources to breed new varieties, establishing standards covering the entire production process to ensure quality, and promoting cooperation among enterprises, cooperatives and farmers. These efforts have created jobs and boosted local incomes. (Xinhua/Lu Jinbo)
This photo taken on Sept. 16, 2026 shows an experimental field at a lotus root innovation base in Honghu City, central China’s Hubei Province. Honghu lotus root is a signature product of Hubei Province. In 2025, the lotus root cultivation area in Honghu City reached 225,000 mu (15,000 hectares), with a total output of 320,000 tonnes.
Local authorities have developed the lotus root industry, leveraging technological resources to breed new varieties, establishing standards covering the entire production process to ensure quality, and promoting cooperation among enterprises, cooperatives and farmers. These efforts have created jobs and boosted local incomes. (Xinhua/Lu Jinbo)
This photo taken on Sept. 16, 2026 shows a lotus root innovation base in Honghu City, central China’s Hubei Province. Honghu lotus root is a signature product of Hubei Province. In 2025, the lotus root cultivation area in Honghu City reached 225,000 mu (15,000 hectares), with a total output of 320,000 tonnes.
Local authorities have developed the lotus root industry, leveraging technological resources to breed new varieties, establishing standards covering the entire production process to ensure quality, and promoting cooperation among enterprises, cooperatives and farmers. These efforts have created jobs and boosted local incomes. (Xinhua/Lu Jinbo)
Workers sort lotus products at a food company in Honghu City, central China’s Hubei Province, Sept. 16, 2026. Honghu lotus root is a signature product of Hubei Province. In 2025, the lotus root cultivation area in Honghu City reached 225,000 mu (15,000 hectares), with a total output of 320,000 tonnes.
Local authorities have developed the lotus root industry, leveraging technological resources to breed new varieties, establishing standards covering the entire production process to ensure quality, and promoting cooperation among enterprises, cooperatives and farmers. These efforts have created jobs and boosted local incomes. (Xinhua/Lu Jinbo)
Crayfish are pictured at a lotus root innovation base in Honghu City, central China’s Hubei Province, Sept. 16, 2026. Honghu lotus root is a signature product of Hubei Province. In 2025, the lotus root cultivation area in Honghu City reached 225,000 mu (15,000 hectares), with a total output of 320,000 tonnes.
Local authorities have developed the lotus root industry, leveraging technological resources to breed new varieties, establishing standards covering the entire production process to ensure quality, and promoting cooperation among enterprises, cooperatives and farmers. These efforts have created jobs and boosted local incomes.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
