Yanjin Bamboo Shoots

Yanjin Bamboo Shoots

　　Yanjin Bamboo Shoots are a specialty of Yanjin County in Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province. The most renowned area is Xinshe Village, where the bamboo planting area has reached 15,000 mu, with an annual production of 1,350 tons of fresh bamboo shoots.

　　Yanjin is home to a wide variety of bamboo resources, mainly including water bamboo, thorn bamboo, moso bamboo, mottled bamboo, bitter bamboo, hardhead yellow bamboo, monk’s head bamboo, and yellow-striped bamboo. There are approximately 70,000 mu of relatively contiguous bamboo forests, yielding 10,000 tons of fresh bamboo shoots and 220 tons of dried bamboo shoots annually, which are exported to Taiwan and Hong Kong. The total annual production of various bamboo products reaches 20,000 tons.