Hangzhou's Yongchang sends Shanghai 50,000 kg bamboo shoots daily to ensure food supply during COVID-19 resurgence
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Five trucks loaded with bamboo shoots left Yongchang, a town located in Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang Province, and arrived in Shanghai in support of the city’s fight against the COVID-19 resurgence and to stabilize its food supply on Monday. (Photos: Hangzhou Daily and Qianjiang Evening News; Compiled by Bai Yujie)
Yongchang town is known as the “hometown of bamboo” and boasts of more than 533 hectares of edible bamboo species. The bamboo shoot is commonly used in Shanghai cuisine--for example, bamboo shoot soup.
Local CPC members and volunteers load the truck with sacks of fresh harvested bamboo shoots in Yongchang. Yongchang pledges to supply Shanghai with 50,000 kg of bamboo shoots daily for more than 10 days.
More than 100 local Party members and volunteers in Fuyang joined in the work of collecting and loading bamboo shoots on Sunday evening. Yongchang pledges to supply Shanghai with 50,000 kg of bamboo shoots daily for more than 10 days.