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Xiang Yuejie, director of Xiang Family Flower Growing Base in Haining, manages potted plant. [Photo/cnjxol.com]

The flower industry in Chang'an town, Haining, Jiaxing, East China's Zhejiang province, has experienced a boom in development in recent years, local media reported on March 8.

The Chunni Flower and Plant Gardening Base in Chang'an has planted 150,000 tulips this year, according to Xing Dongfang, production director of the base.

Xing said that in celebration of Women's Day, they refrigerated 2,000 tulips and have sold more than 200,000 tulips to other cities this year.

The flower industry in Chang'an used rely on a single product – fresh-cut flowers, according to an official from the town.

A few years ago, the cut-flower industry in Yunnan and Anhui provinces took off and impacted the development of the industry in Chang'an, said the official.

He added that to address this, flower growers in Chang'an started growing potted plants and other ornamental plants in 2018.

Take the Xiang Family Flower Growing Base for example. In 2016, the base grew 300 mu of lilies, but still the base couldn't turn a profit. Since then, it has been growing holly, which can be sold as a potted plant as well as on branches. The yield per mu of holly is 10 times that of lily.

Xiang Yuejie, director of the Xiang Family Flower Growing Base, said that holly growing boasts strong market prospect in China as there are few such growing bases in the country.