Chinese consumers are buying up plentiful arrangements of flowers to decorate their homes for this year's Spring Festival beginning Jan 29, benefiting from smoother transportation from south China's Yunnan Province, the country's primary flower-growing region.
Flower sales ahead China's most important holiday have been rising since New Year in Yunnan's Dounan Flower market, the largest cut flowers market in Asia that supplies over 70 percent of demand in China. According to statistics from Kunming Flower Auction Center, around 3.7 million cut flowers are being sent every day from the market to all provinces around the country.
To facilitate transportation, Yunnan's first single-product sorting and delivery center, the Yunnan Dounan Cold Chain Distribution Center was put into use, adopting the latest technologies in the industry like smart recognition and auto sorting.
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