Guanyang Tung Oil

Guanyang Tung Oil

　　Tung oil is a premium industrial oil used in chemical, defense, and other industries. According to *Excerpts from Statistical Materials of the Late Qing Dynasty and the Republican Era*, during the Republican period, Guanyang became one of the main tung oil-producing regions in Guangxi, with an annual output accounting for about 60% of the total tung oil production in the Guilin area. After liberation, Guanyang was designated as a tung oil base county in Guangxi. In 1990, the county planted over 5,000 acres of tung trees, yielding more than 500,000 kilograms of tung oil annually, which was exported to the United States, Japan, and various Southeast Asian countries.