Made Here: From farm to future, how sweet business transforms in “hometown of lychees”
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Nestled in the lush landscapes of southwestern Guangdong Province, Maoming City is known as a “hometown of lychees” in China.
According to a white paper released by the local government, Maoming is China’s largest lychee production base with a planting area of approximately 1.42 million mu (about 94,667 hectares) and an annual output that accounted for roughly 20 percent of the country’s total in 2024. Beyond supplying domestic markets, Maoming lychee is exported worldwide, reaching countries including Russia, Australia, Thailand, and Japan.
Follow Xinhua correspondent Smiley to see how the lychee farmers here unlock the future of farming with cutting-edge technologies.
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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.…
