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China to enhance mulberry silk industry in the West
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-09-27 16:02
By the end of 2010, two million mu (133,000 hectares) of mulberry
plantations will be developed in west China away from the traditional
hometown of China's mulberry silk industry in the east, the Ministry of
Commerce (MOC) has announced.
Huang Hai, Assistant Minister of Commerce, said that China launched the
project to develop mulberry plantations and a silk industry in west China
this year.
Output in China's east had dropped from 51 percent in 2000 to 41 percent
in 2005 due to industrial growth and a drop in cropland.
The project, the biggest-ever move by the Chinese government to develop
the mulberry silk industry, aimed to optimize the industrial structure in
the east, upgrade conditions in central China and strengthen the
development of the mulberry silk industry in the west.
Huang said the MOC had ratified mulberry bases in 15 provinces and
regions in central and west China.
By the end of 2010, China's pod output would rise by 2 to 3 percent to
870,000 tons, accounting for 75 percent of the world's total.
East China's Jiangsu Province, a major base for China's silk industry,
has seen the establishment of 30,000 mu (2000 hectares) of mulberry
plantations in west China's Guizhou Province and Chongqing Municipality
as well as north China's Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region.
Low labor and resource costs and preferential policies for investment in
west China were the major incentives, said experts.
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