Chapter Five Hundred and Twelfth Ten Million Transactions
Before ten o'clock, all the guests had already taken their seats, and a large number of people gathered in the market courtyard to watch the excitement.
Many people came from Donggang, the villages around Songjiang River, and even many other towns.
At ten o'clock sharp, Zhou Qingguo took the stage first as the main manager.
"Dear leaders and distinguished guests, thank you all for taking time out of your busy schedule to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the Donggang Town Ginseng Market and the opening ceremony of the first Linhai Ginseng Township Concert in Fusong." There was applause from the bottom.
"Now, let me tell you about today's schedule.
At 10:18 in the morning, the ribbon was cut for the opening, speeches by leaders, and an on-site exchange exhibition.
At half past one in the afternoon, the concert opens and the first performance begins.”
This schedule is determined jointly with relevant units and leaders.
It happens to open in the morning, there will be an opening reception at noon, and there will be a performance in the afternoon, so that's good too.
When Zhou Qingguo was talking, someone over there had already begun to prepare.
At 10:18, two long strings of firecrackers hanging at the gate of the market were lit.
On the rostrum, Guan Enxue, Chen Jianzhang, Su Anying and others held scissors and cut off the red silk in the hands of the etiquette personnel.
I have never seen this kind of opening ribbon-cutting ceremony before. It was Xu Shiyan’s suggestion.
Regardless of the people on stage and off stage, they all thought it was very fresh. Many people were still talking about it below. What a pity that the good red silk was cut like this.
After the opening ribbon-cutting, leaders at all levels and guests spoke.
These are just a process, and they are all the same, and they will never change.
Over there, reporters and cameramen arranged by the county were carrying household items to take pictures. This was also news material and might be reported to the province.
After the relevant leaders and guest representatives finished speaking, the product exchange meeting on the other side began.
The news of the opening of the market was notified to all participating venues almost a month in advance, and the invitation letter also specifically stated that you can bring products for display.
Although some people in the county have a negative attitude towards participating in the market, in fact, the person in charge of each participating market feels that this is an opportunity, so they have made preparations in advance.
Or rush to produce a batch of products, or print brochures, etc.
The so-called exhibition stand is actually a stall in the ginseng market, one stall per unit, filled with various ginseng products.
Whole-bearded red ginseng, bare-branched red ginseng, strong ginseng, white dried ginseng, peeled raw and sun-dried ginseng, sugared ginseng, red straight beard, white straight beard, edged ginseng, and skin-tailed ginseng.
There is also a ginseng farm that has successfully developed Changbai Mountain red ginseng, natural active ginseng, preserved ginseng, etc. in recent years.
In addition to ginseng products, Yi Ginseng also brought medicinal materials such as Gastrodia elata, Asarum, Fritillaria, and Ganoderma lucidum.
Needless to say, it must be a product grown from the comprehensive utilization of ginseng land, and it is just right to bring it here to display the results.
Merchants from the south wandered back and forth between the various stalls. If they saw a product they liked, they would ask about the price.
This price is still uniform across the county.
Each type of product is divided into first, second and third grades according to quality. The county ginseng company has a special catalog that stipulates the wholesale price and retail price of each type of ginseng.
If the weight exceeds 100 jins, the wholesale price will be calculated in the county of origin. If the weight is less than 100 jins, the retail price will be calculated. The price will be higher.
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The main reason for clarifying prices and unified pricing in the county is naturally to prevent growers from underselling each other and to standardize market management.
At the same time, it can also attract farmers to sell ginseng products, increase the income of ginseng households, and prevent second-rate dealers from disrupting the market.
But there is actually a lot of maneuverability in the middle.
For example, how to divide the first, second and third parameters depends entirely on experience.
Some people can take advantage of this and buy it from ginseng farmers at the price of third-grade ginseng, and then go back and do a little picking.
Pick out the bad ones and sell them as third class, and sell the rest as second class, so you can make money.
Another way is to mix a small amount of second-class ginseng into the first-class ginseng. As long as it is not too excessive, it will not be detected during the grade test, and you can make money again.
Also, all kinds of ginseng and mixed products are called a one-stop service. You can collect them directly, sort them yourself, and then sell them individually.
Some people have bad eyesight. They can tell at a glance what proportion of goods are in each grade, how operable it is, and how much money can be earned.
Anyway, the water in the ginseng market is very muddy.
When purchasing, we suppress the grade and find faults; when selling, we raise the grade and mix in a small amount of inferior quality.
As long as there is an interest in this thing, there will be loopholes to exploit, and this cannot be completely eliminated.
Some second-hand dealers make their living from this. Those who are powerful in this industry can make money by collecting goods from one side of the ginseng market and selling them at the other end.
When pricing is liberalized in the future and everything is left to the market, there will be no need to mention it.
Those second-rate dealers spend a whole autumn making hundreds of thousands of dollars just for fun.
If some of them are in contact with customers in the south and directly receive goods for them, let alone receiving goods here and sending them to the south, they can earn a lot of money single-handedly.
Therefore, a ginseng industry actually feeds too many people.
Of course, there won't be any trouble on this first day of the product exchange meeting.
Merchants can place orders directly with the participating dealers if they like which product type they like.
The two parties agreed on the unit price, quantity, delivery time and method, then signed the order contract and paid a certain percentage of the reservation payment, then the business was concluded.
After the business is negotiated and signed, go to the office team of the county ginseng company to prepare the contract.
While waiting for shipment, the ginseng company will issue a transportation certificate.
"How is it? How many goods have been ordered in total?"
Guan Enxue stood next to the office team of Ginseng Rong Company, watching the staff accumulate the transaction volume and transaction amount in the morning.
"Secretary Guan, there were thirty-five contracts formally signed this morning, and hundreds of letters of intent for orders. If you add up the total, the transaction volume is 35 million yuan."
The staff calculates the transaction amount and reports it directly to Guan Enxue.
When Guan Enxue and others in the county heard this, they were all shocked. This transaction amount was beyond their expectations.
No one expected that there would be such a huge transaction volume in just an hour.
You should know that the total ginseng storage area in the county this year is about 1.1 million feet, and the production area this year is more than 300,000 feet.
In just one hour, about one-tenth of the year's production volume was ordered. This speed is really amazing.
And this is just the beginning, there are likely to be more orders in the future.
In addition, the acquisition base of the provincial medicinal material company and the health product company, the export contract of the county ginseng and antler company, and the annual export orders of a ginseng farm.
This year's ginseng sales in the county are likely to reach a new high.
"Look at it, this is the ginseng market that you are so opposed to.
Now, do you think it is necessary for this ginseng market to exist?"
Guan Enxue turned his head and looked at the people behind him, especially those who had been opposed before.
Those people were all blushing at this moment.
The ginseng market had such a huge transaction volume on the first day it opened, which was like a slap in the face to them.