Lavender planting, lavender processing, lavender tourism, Huocheng County, Xinjiang, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, is making the "aromatic industry" into its own economic business card.

Xinjiang Huocheng County is known as “the hometown of Chinese lavender”, and the lavender planting area is 21,000 mu. It is understood that the average annual income per mu of lavender growers can reach more than 3,000 yuan, which is much higher than the economic benefits of ordinary crops.

“The scale of planting is large. During the flowering period, visitors here are woven.” Hou Delu, secretary of the Huocheng County Party Committee, said that lavender directly stimulated the development of the tertiary industry. “Visitors come, need to eat, need to live, and bring to the local people. income".

Since 2011, Huocheng County has held the first Lavender Tourism Festival to carry out cultural tourism activities. By 2016, Huocheng County has received a total of 1.28 million tourist visits and a total tourism income of 1.35 billion yuan. Since the beginning of 2017, only lavender has reached 800,000 tourists, and the comprehensive tourism income has reached 800 million yuan.

It is understood that the annual average output of lavender essential oil in Huocheng County is 40 tons and dried flowers are 810 tons. “Enterprises are the leader and drive the people to get rich”, Hou Delu introduced that there are currently four large-scale lavender planting bases and enterprises in Huocheng County. Huocheng County has invested a lot of money every year to increase support for leading enterprises and promote planting scale. And the standardization of essential oil processing, has now invested a total of 150 million yuan.