Internet and smart logistics boost Qingzhou floral business
A staff of Qingzhou floral park is live streaming about its succulent products. [Photo provided to Chinadaily.com.cn]
Now the city's floral cultivating covers an area of 129,000 mu (8,600 hectares), with an output value of 7.7 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) every year and an annual transaction of 9.3 billion yuan.
The park, built in 2016, covers an area of 1,000 mu with an investment of 450 million yuan; 15 hectares of it are used for the storage and transit of succulents.
The park live streams its products every day to show the categories and quality to retailers across China. The live-streaming promotes the plants in detail, including prices and plant maintenance methods.
The park also adopts an intelligent logistics system which uses machines to sort and pack products for shipment and processes more than 8,000 orders in an hour. Seeing the efficiency brought by the system, the park plans to expand its transit warehouses from 60 to 1,000 across China.