Longyou Bamboo Shoots and Bamboos

Longyou Bamboo Shoots and Bamboos

　　　　Longyou County is home to 33 species of bamboo across 7 genera, with bamboo forests covering an area of 320,400 mu, accounting for 35.49% of the county’s total forested land. The total standing bamboo volume reaches 47.9561 million poles, earning it the reputation of being the "Bamboo Treasury of Western Zhejiang."

　　Led by the Longyou Pressboard Factory, the county has strongly supported the development of a series of bamboo and shoot-based forest product processing industries. More than 800 manufacturers produce over 200 types of bamboo and shoot products across 10 categories, including bamboo plywood, building materials, papermaking raw materials, food, stationery, handicrafts, and farming tools. The Longyou Pressboard Factory is one of the largest domestic specialized producers of laminated bamboo plywood, with an annual processing capacity of 14,000 cubic meters. Its "Tenglong" brand laminated bamboo plywood is widely used in automobile floors, basketball backboards, railway freight car panels, and international shipping container panels, and is sold to six provinces and one municipality. In recent years, the enterprise has been awarded honors such as "National Timber-Saving Enterprise" and "Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in Zhejiang Province."

　　The county is home to over 20 water-boiled bamboo shoot processing enterprises, making it a national hub for the production and trade of water-boiled bamboo shoots, with an annual production and sales volume exceeding 800,000 cans (15,000 tons). The "Zhijiang" brand water-boiled bamboo shoots have been recognized as an exempt-from-inspection product, and are exported to Japan, generating annual foreign exchange earnings of 4.5 million USD. With the "LinYe" brand winter bamboo shoots from Longyou winning the Silver Award for High-Quality Agricultural Products in Zhejiang Province in 1997, the export prospects for fresh bamboo shoots have improved. In 1997, 12 tons were exported, earning 38,300 USD in foreign exchange, and by spring 1999, exports had reached 23 tons, generating 95,500 USD, with the annual export volume totaling approximately 25 tons. Alongside production growth, several townships (towns) have developed into hubs for bamboo and shoot product processing. Wucun Township, led by a private enterprise, has united more than half of its rural households to process "Chunhu" brand bamboo skewers, which are exported to Japan, South Korea, and other regions. Lingshan Township produces eight million bamboo-woven tangerine baskets annually, supplying cities within the province such as Hangzhou, Jinhua, Quzhou, and Lishui, establishing itself as a production base for tangerine basket processing in western Zhejiang.