Just after Valentine ’s Day ( February 14 ) and the Formosan Lantern Festival ( February 15 ) , it was still a busy scene in Kunming ’s Dounan Flower Trading Hall , the largest flower market in China . On February 17 , our colleagues fromHortiDaily Chinapaid a visit to this market in the Yunnan province where 80 % of the Formosan flowers are traded and exported to over 50 countries and region .
Over the years , Dounan Flower Trading Center has developed into a powerful complex , integrate vendue , logistics , agrarian material , tourism , and so on . It is also the only flower merchandise industrial park in the world that uses dissimilar transaction modes of Internet + e - commercialism : auction transactions , electronic incorporate settlement , and vis-a-vis minutes . On the trading level , purchaser are engaged in intense transactions .
Approximately more than 1,600 varieties of 41 categories of smart - cutting off flowers are traded in Dounan every day . All of that together represents more than 80 % of fresh - cut flowers in Yunnan Province , on top of flower coming from neighboring province and Southeast Asian country . The export of Dounan flush has also cover more than 50 countries and regions .
Yunnan Province is the main supplier of bloom in China . In late age , the responsibility has vigorously built a more convenient transportation connection , promoted the structure of a radiation center field look South Asia and Southeast Asia , and laid a solid foundation for " Yunnan efflorescence " to go out of the province . Express couriers such as SF Express , Yunda Express , and YTO Express can be meet everywhere in the park . The perfect logistics insensate range system ensures the dissipated transportation of blossom . For item-by-item buyers , the merchant also provides a delivery express mail logistics service , which is very convenient .
The packaged peak were send to Beijing , Shanghai , Guangzhou , Shenzhen , and other cities .
To help merchant transactions , the park also launched the Huashangbao app , a one - stoppage comprehensive service peregrine software specifically designed for flower market enterprise and related to practician . The app corroborate online scanning and charge , render electronic visor , and think first - hand industry transaction information in existent - time .
The sellers at the market place said that this year ’s New Year ’s peak sale were really serious . This with the addition of Valentine ’s Day and the Lantern Festival , many flower shop were sell out . This outcome in Price that are high-pitched than in previous long time . On top of that , there is a growing demand for gamy - quality blossom . The wholesale price of a bunch of 20 roses , for example , can reach more than 200 RMB ( around 31.5 USD / 28 euro ) .
Outside the room access of the trading hall , tricycles are waiting for the transport of heyday , and each vehicle has its own pass .
© FloralDaily.com/Luo ( Cathy ) Rong
