The air is charged with anticipation as an auction commences at the Kunming International Flora Auction Trading Center in Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan province.Giant screens flicker with the pulse of the market, displaying the ever-changing prices of fresh-cut flowers. Auctioneers make swift decisions, and soon the auctioned flowers will embark on journeys far and wide, not just within the country but to over 50 overseas markets.
Official data shows that the daily transaction volume at the auction trading center, located in Dounan of Kunming, is as high as 6 million stems.In the afternoon, Yang Tao delivers 2,000 bundles of blooms to the flower market. A second-generation flower grower, Yang bears witness to the transition of Dounan.
Residents in Dounan began planting flowers in 1983. In the 1990s, they embarked on the path of commercial cultivation and trading of fresh-cut flowers. At that time, farmers and traders sold flowers on the main road of Dounan village, forming a 50-meter-long "Dounan flower street."Over the following decades, flowers grown in Dounan were sold to more regions across the country. In 1999, China's first professional flower-trading market was established in Douna
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