With the continuous progress of the “One Belt, One Road” construction of the Chinese government, Shaanxi is an important apple production area along the Silk Road, creating an “Apple Industry Economic Cooperation Belt” connecting the five Central Asian countries, and the pace of its apple industry connecting Central Asia and even Europe. Increasingly faster. The five Central Asian countries will also form a solid industrial alliance with the western region of China.

The cultivation records of apples originating in Europe and Central Asia can be traced back to more than 2,000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty. At present, Shaanxi is an important apple production area along the Silk Road, and the largest apple planted in the world. From Shaanxi to Central Asia, a spectacular “Silk Road Apple Industry Economic Cooperation Belt” is formed. As of the end of 2014, Shaanxi had the largest apple planting area in the country, accounting for one-fourth of the country's output and one-seventh of the world's. It was China's largest apple province. As the main source of apple in Central Asia, the existing planting area is about 2.5 million mu and the output is about 1.3 million tons.

In the white fruit garden in Guanzhong Plain, Yang Chaoqun, general manager of e-commerce company Baibaohui E-commerce Co., Ltd., told reporters that this year's traditional sales model has been significantly impacted, and e-commerce and micro-business sales have been increasing. Taobao, Tmall, SF Express and other third-party platforms, direct marketing platforms, micro-channel business Apple sell a large number of Apple's brand on the Internet.

According to Xiang Qingde, an expert in fruit industry in Shaanxi Province, the outline of a “Silk Road Apple Industry Economic Cooperation Belt” from Shaanxi to Central Asia began to appear.

By taking advantage of the “Belt and Road” initiative, Shaanxi has stepped up exchanges and cooperation with the fruit industry along the New Silk Road, and its export of apples to the west has increased. In 2013, Shaanxi exported only more than 1.3 million tons of fresh fruit. In addition to the export of fruit juice and many processed products, it was converted into fresh fruit. One third of apples in the province are exported through various channels.

With the rising proportion of farmers' income, the fruit industry has now become the most important factor in the growth of farmers' income in the western region. The western region of China will also form an industrial alliance with the five Central Asian countries. Cooperation between the two sides will complement each other's strengths and jointly improve the level of apple production management.

According to statistics, Shaanxi apples have been exported to more than 80 countries around the world, from Vietnam, Thailand and other Southeast Asian markets to the United States, Australia, Canada and other high-end markets, covering the world's five continents. At the same time, Shaanxi has built the largest apple single product e-commerce platform in China, and has taken the China (Shaanxi)-Kazakhstan Apple Friendship Park as an opportunity to join the international cycle and expand the westward and southward channels.

Shaanxi scholar quartz believes that Shaanxi has developed its apple industry through the Silk Road Economic Belt. Its significance lies not only in the economic level. Central Asia, as one of the important birthplaces of Apple, has retained a wealth of wild apple tree resources and has cooperated in research and development. New varieties and sound apple tree gene pools are valuable.

In the past two years, with the smooth operation of the Changan International Freight Train, the utility of the Shaanxi Westward Transit channel linking Xi'an-Moscow and Xi'an-Kazakhstan has become increasingly significant.

According to Li Weimin, Deputy Director of the Plant Inspection and Quarantine Branch of the Shaanxi Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, China’s apple is still lacking in competitiveness in the international high-end market. Therefore, the government should increase the construction of the public technical service team and carry out scientific monitoring of pests and diseases. Prevention and control, the realization of orchard unified defense rule.

The “Silk Apple Industrial Belt” construction will build an Apple Demonstration Park in five countries in Central Asia by integrating the advantages of planting, management, agricultural resources, processing, and trading resources to open up the road of Apple's economic cooperation. In addition, organizations and cooperatives will also set up Shaanxi Apple Stores in the port cities of Xinjiang and Almaty, Kazakhstan, and use this as a relay to open up the road to other Central Asian countries and Russia and European countries.