Qiancheng Hundred Counties View China | Qiyang, Hunan: "Small Taro Balls" Turned into a "Major Industry"

After the Spring Festival, consumer market enthusiasm remains high. A food company in Qiyang High-tech Zone, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, is experiencing a peak in production and sales, with workers working at full capacity to fulfill taro ball orders. In the production workshop, automated production lines operate efficiently, with uniformly sized, round, and plump taro balls rolling like pearls. After standard procedures such as cooling, screening, and packaging, they are ready to be shipped nationwide.

As the company’s flagship product, taro balls are in high demand, with an average of about 6,000 orders per day. Meanwhile, the new-style tea beverage ingredient, konjac jelly balls, has also expanded its production capacity, not only selling well in the domestic market but also receiving overseas orders from Southeast Asia.

As the industrial chain continues to extend, these small taro balls are bursting with great energy, becoming a “sweet industry” that drives local economic development and promotes employment and income growth for the people.

(Xinhua News Agency)