In recent years, many counties in China have guided farmers to actively grow produce in greenhouses such as strawberries, peppers, and tomatoes, and have revitalized the tourism economy of the suburbs and increased the income of farmers.
Another case of this is in Jiande City, Zhejiang province, it introduced strawberry planting in the early 1980s. Over the past 30 years, the industry has been continuously upgraded: initially from the open field cultivation to the current production mode, which is mainly dependent on steel frame greenhouse, supplemented by the multi-span greenhouse and glass greenhouse; cultivating “Hong Xia”, "Zhang Ji", "Snow White" and other high-quality varieties; selling through the Internet with express delivery to expand the sales space, and actively developing strawberry-picking tour. At present, there are more than 25,600 employees in the strawberry industry in Jiande City, with an area of 81,200 mu and a total output value of 3.96 billion RMB.
Source: xinhuanet.com (Weng Xinyang) gs.xinhuanet.com (Wang Gang)