Recently, the agricultural product processing facility in Yangzhewo Community, Luoxiong Subdistrict, Luoping County, Qujing City, Yunnan Province, was officially put into operation, marking a further enhancement of the functions of the Yangzhewo Community Modern Agricultural Industrial Park. The industrial park addresses shortcomings in post-harvest processing, storage, and distribution of local agricultural products, and represents a significant practice of advancing project construction through the group-based approach under Shanghai-Yunnan collaboration.

Luoping County has a large planting scale of crops such as small yellow ginger and rapeseed, but for a long time, the traditional production model of relying on sun-drying has led to mold and spoilage losses of agricultural products, constraining the modernization of local agriculture. The Yangzhewo agricultural product processing facility project in Luoping County. (Photo provided by the interviewed organization)

To precisely tackle the bottlenecks in local agricultural industry development, since 2025, Luoxiong Subdistrict has leveraged the Shanghai-Yunnan collaboration assistance mechanism, securing 12.8 million yuan in Shanghai-Yunnan collaboration assistance funds, focusing on the construction of the Yangzhewo Community Modern Agricultural Industrial Park, and advancing two major projects: cold chain storage and agricultural product processing. At the same time, it has mobilized 14.4 million yuan in social capital for coordinated investment, establishing an investment pattern of "Shanghai-Yunnan funds leading, social capital empowering."

According to reports, this project greatly compressed the preliminary project cycle by optimizing the approval process and opening green channels. From the planning and design stage, a professional operating enterprise was introduced to participate throughout the entire process, allowing the needs of business entities to be integrated into project construction in advance, achieving commissioning upon completion and operation upon landing, and fulfilling the assistance goal of "project approval, construction, and results achieved in the same year."

Zhou Quan, the project operation manager, introduced that the first-phase cold storage project of the Yangzhewo Community Modern Agricultural Industrial Park built a 13,842 cubic meter cold storage facility and a 1,008 square meter drying shed, with an annual storage capacity of 3,000 tons. The second-phase agricultural product processing project built a standardized production workshop of more than 3,400 square meters, equipped with a full set of production lines for loading and unloading, drying, and threshing, capable of processing more than 150,000 tons of agricultural products such as corn, rapeseed, and rice annually. The Yangzhewo agricultural product processing facility project in Luoping County. (Photo provided by the interviewed organization)

The ultimate goal of industrial empowerment is to enrich the people and benefit the public. To ensure that the results of Shanghai-Yunnan collaboration precisely benefit the masses, Yangzhewo Community has innovatively implemented the "442" profit distribution mechanism linking farmers and driving them along. According to the distribution rules, 40% of the project's annual revenue is used for infrastructure improvements such as village road repairs and environmental lighting; 40% is used for daily operation and maintenance of the park and industrial upgrading and expansion; and 20% is used to precisely empower farmers through various means such as land transfer, guaranteed purchase of agricultural products, and skills training, consolidating the bottom line against returning to poverty.

A stable industrial system and a scientific distribution mechanism allow the masses to share in the dividends of development. According to statistics, the two major projects of cold storage and agricultural product processing in the industrial park can increase the annual net income of the village collective by 600,000 yuan and help workers increase their annual per capita income by more than 5,000 yuan.

In the next step, Luoping County will continue to deepen the results of Shanghai-Yunnan collaboration, continuously extend the industrial chain of highland characteristic agricultural products, promote local value-added processing of agricultural products and industrial upgrading, continuously enrich the connotation of Shanghai-Yunnan collaboration, and let the flower of mountain-sea collaboration continue to bloom and bear fruit in Luoping.