Look at the market before the holiday ｜ National Day is approaching, and the price of flowers is stable.

CCTV News:With the National Day approaching, Dounan Flower Market in Kunming, Yunnan Province has also ushered in a wave of consumption boom.As the largest fresh cut flower market in Asia, it is not only a "wind vane" but also a "barometer" for the sales of fresh cut flowers in Asia. The flowers shipped from here every day flow to more than 50 countries and regions around the world, decorating the lives of thousands of families.

In Dounan Flower Market, Jiao Xiuzhi, a tourist from Shanxi, is excitedly video-chatting with friends, visiting the flower market and recommending flowers from Yunnan to friends.

Due to the increase of happy events such as opening, housewarming and marriage during the National Day, flower varieties such as Phalaenopsis, roses and Eupatorium grandiflorum are also showing a booming trend of purchase and sale. Merchants prepared their goods early, and the roads were lined with flowers. Those brightly colored flowers were placed in the front row for customers to choose.

At the express delivery point, the couriers have already started busy packing. With the rapid development of logistics, more than half of Dounan’s flowers sent to the whole country or exported have been transported by air, and 80% of them have been transported by road with cold chain vehicles controlled by low temperature. While effectively reducing flower loss, the freshness and quality of flowers are guaranteed, thus attracting more potential consumers.

In a flower trading platform in Kunming, the staff are busy negotiating the transaction. This is the first vertical e-commerce service platform in China to match online transactions between flower merchants and flower farmers. There are more than 3,500 flower farmers and cooperatives, and more than 300,000 buyers have settled in. Up to now, the cumulative transaction volume of flowers has exceeded 1 billion, and the cumulative transaction volume has exceeded 1 billion yuan.