Lanzhou Customs said on Aug.27 that 23t red date products made in Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu Province are successfully exported to Turkey after passing quarantine of Dunhuang Airport Customs subordinated to Lanzhou Customs. This is the first time that Dunhuang red dates entered European market.

Statistics show since this year Dunhuang has exported red dates and melons to Canada, Turkey, Cambodia and Thailand respectively. Characteristic agricultural products are expanding export market continuously.

Dunhuang, well-known for the “Dunhuang Caves”, “Dunhuang fresco” and “Crescent Moon Spring”, is an important node city on the ancient Silk Road. As introduced by authority of Dunhuang officially, Dunhuang started agricultural development 4000 years ago. Dunhuang is surrounded by Gobi Desert, with long sunshine time and large diurnal temperature variation. Fruits planted in sandy soil are highly sweet and suffering less plant diseases and insect pests. It becomes the best area for high quality and safe fruits production.

Lanzhou Customs said since this year Dunhuang Airport Customs surveyed in enterprises and fields to lower impact of epidemic and help foreign trade enterprises to resume work; they helped foreign trade enterprises in Dunhuang to develop overseas market, expand marketing channel of characteristic agricultural products and allow foreign trade enterprises and farmers to increase yield and income by integrating “guidance, cultivation and services”.