The interior of a cold-storage facility in Haimen district, Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province. [Photo/WeChat account: haimenrongmei] 

At a farm in Haimen district, Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province, freshly picked okra went through sorting and packaging and was then sent to cold-storage facilities for pre-cooling and preservation.

This scene is the result of the district's efforts over the past two years to build more facilities to preserve agricultural products by keeping them fresh, which will aid its common prosperity drive.

The district is currently home to a cold-storage capacity of 70,000 cubic meters, which can accommodate approximately 100,000 metric tons of vegetables and fruits per year.

With the support of on-field cold-storage facilities, Haimen's specialty agricultural products such as peaches, grapes, cherry tomatoes, and green soybeans continuously enter the "baskets" of consumers throughout the country.

Cold-storage facilities and full cold-chain logistics not only expand the supply radius but also maintain the original freshness, giving the products a competitive quality and high added value.

Huang Meiping, Party secretary of the district's Fengyang village, said that for example they put eggs remaining at the end of the market season into the preservation warehouse for refrigeration through the off-season and release them in the peak-season, implementing staggered sales.

Huang added that in March to May this year they preserved 5,000 boxes of eggs, and the profit from staggered sales reached 300,000 yuan ($41,189.32).