As China’s largest flower trading center — sometimes regarded as Asia's largest — 70 percent of flowers sold in China come from Kunming’s Dounan. The center sold almost seven billion flowers last year.

     Twenty years ago, the farmers around Yunnan's Dianchi Lake mostly grew vegetables for sale in local village markets. On the eastern shore of the lake, the Dounan area of Kunming, now the site of the world's second-largest flower market, after one in the Netherlands, was then a small village.

     The region has a great climate for growing flowers, but there was no way for the farmers to get these higher-valued but quickly perishable products to markets in the big cities of China, not to speak of foreign markets.

    While flower growing has deep roots in the region, the boom came after the 1999 World Horticultural Expo held in Kunming — an opportunity that let more people from both home and abroad know more about the flowers of the city. The Kunming Expo was the first time for the World Horticultural Expo being held in China. It was ranked A1, the highest level possible.

      It does not end there. In 2015, a brand new electronic trading center was established in Dounan. The system uses a similar mechanism to flower auctions in the Netherlands — starting from a higher asking price and bidding for a lower price. The auction starts in the afternoon and each deal will be settled within five seconds.

      Hustle and bustle has happened to Asia's biggest floral market everyday. The volume of business per day researches 2.5 million RMB. These flowers will not only supply our dome stic market, but also are set to international market. Some countries like Japan, North Korea, Singapore and Thailand import fresh flowers from Dou Nan Flower Market by air every day.

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Article reference: CGTN; China Daily

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