With mild winters and cool summers, Luquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County in southwest China's Yunnan Province provides an ideal environment for the flower industry.
"Our roses are sold nationwide and exported to Vietnam, Thailand, Russia and more countries," said Yang Guiying, head of a flower company in Luquan.
Born and raised in Luquan, Yang was assigned a job in her hometown after graduating from college in the 1990s. Confident in the promising future of the flower industry, she chose to resign and move to Kunming, the provincial capital, to work for a flower company. There, she spent two years systematically learning agricultural and cultivation techniques before eventually launching her own business.
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