To help eliminate poverty, Xinyuan Cocoon Silk Group has set up about 203 square kilometers of mulberry garden sericulture bases in key sericulture areas across China. [Photo/ourjiangsu.com]

The National Poverty Alleviation Award Commendation Conference and Report Meeting of Advanced Deeds were held in Beijing on Oct 17. Chu Chengping, Party chief and chairman of Xinyuan Cocoon Silk Group Co Ltd was the only recipient of the Individual Contribution Award from Nantong, Jiangsu province.

Xinyuan Cocoon Silk Group is located in Hai'an, a county-level city administered by Nantong and dubbed the hometown of cocoon silk for its quality and abundant production.

The group has created a unique industrialized management system that contains companies and engineering centers working collaboratively with colleges and institutes. They also cooperate with production bases, including farms and cooperatives, and have helped achieve income growth for related farmers.

The company found a suitable way of succeeding in large-scale mulberry plantation and silkworm rearing. It also built sericulture farms and sericulture cooperatives and involved local farmers. The development pattern has effectively promoted the industry, growing it into a more standardized, modernized operation with larger scale and higher quality in all dimensions.

The group currently has 229 sericulture family farms and 169 sericulture consortium farms in Hai'an. The average income per mu (about 667 square meters) of a single sericulture family farm is up to 15,000 yuan ($2,246).

The "Xinyuan" model has been popularized in Huanjiang and Debao counties in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Yongxin county in Jiangxi province, Qianshan and Huoshan counties in Anhui province, Lueyang county in Shaanxi province, Suqian in Jiangsu province, and other regions.

To help eliminate poverty, the group set up about 203 square kilometers of mulberry garden sericulture bases in key sericulture areas across the country, continuously increasing the income of 220,000 farmers. The development has also benefited about 13,000 low income earners recorded in the national poverty relief system.