Ningxia: Witness The Growth Of “Chinese Good Goji Berry”

Six in the morning, the Zhongning international Goji berry trade center which is located in Ningxia Zhongning county has been crowded, thousands of traders across the country come here, just to buy the best quality of goji berry from origin.

“Modern people pay more and more attention to health, and goji berry is a traditional Chinese health care product.” Here you can buy Ningxia goji berry, so I’m far from here, but also come to buy.” From Chongqing dried fruit merchant Li Rongjiang, every year he comes to Ningxia during the Ningxia goji berry ripening period.

Covers an area of 1300 acres of Zhongning goji berry international trading center, composed of A and B region, the A region is the Ningxia goji berry trading area, B region is the trading area of Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and other producers. Here is not only China’s largest goji berry trading center, but also become the national goji berry prices “drogue”. In 2016, 120 thousand tons of goji berry were traded in the trading center, amounting to $800 million.

According to Xu Shengcai, the head of the office of the trade center, Ningxia goji berry concentrated market in June and July, then the trading began to enter the peak season, day trading volume can reach more than 800 tons.

Good quality is what is recognized by the market. There are currently 51 processing enterprises of goji berry in the county, and 17 export enterprises. There are more than 40 kinds of products of deep processing of goji berry, products are exported to Europe, Southeast Asia and other more than 40 countries and regions, exports accounted for 40% of China.