The 2nd Tomato Culture Festival of China's High-quality Tomato Town in 2024 was officially launched in the Modern Agricultural Industrial Park of Dianzi Town, Boxing County, Shandong Province.

Boxing County is located in the hinterland of the Yellow River Delta, with outstanding regional advantages. The tomatoes cultivated here are vibrantly red, plump, and succulent, offering a delightful and refreshing taste. After nearly 30 years of accumulation, Boxing tomatoes have achieved unprecedented development in terms of scale, output, quality and brand, and were successfully selected into the National Famous, Special, Excellent and New Agricultural Products Catalogue in 2021. The brand influence of "the hometown of high-quality tomatoes in China" continues to expand. This year's Tomato Festival has built a platform for external exchanges, allowing everyone to use "tomatoes" as a medium to jointly explore and share new ideas, new technologies and new models for the development of the tomato industry. Based on the tomato industry foundation, Boxing County will further expand the scale, open up the market, extend the industrial chain, and strive to build a modern agricultural brand with profound heritage and keeping pace with the times, accumulating strength and empowering high-quality agricultural development.

In recent years, Dianzi Town has focused on technology empowerment, built a modern agricultural industrial park integrating tomato seedling cultivation, planting, sales, and sightseeing into a whole industry chain, improved the modern agricultural intelligent Internet of Things system, and explored new paths for high-quality development of agricultural industries; Focusing on mutual benefit and win-win results, exploring the new model of "cross-village joint construction", promoting the transformation of village party organizations from "decentralized operation" to "integration and common progress", and igniting a new engine for large-scale intensive industrialization; Focusing on resource coordination, we will continue to promote the construction of the "Red Charm Tomato Hometown ·  Enchanting Dianzi" rural revitalization demonstration area with tomato farming as the leading industry, and create a new vision of characteristic industry demonstration and leadership.

The expert group at the event site conducted a planting technology consultation and Q&A activity, and the promotion of high-quality new varieties of tomatoes, fruit and vegetable seedlings, and famous agricultural products attracted a significant number of vegetable farmers for visits, learning, consultations, and exchanges. providing a good platform for farmers to broaden their horizons and expand their thinking.

In the next step, Dianzi Town in Boxing County will continue to forge ahead, leveraging the establishment of the Qilu Model Demonstration Area for Rural Revitalization as a pivotal strategy. It will focus on achieving "five major breakthroughs" and implementing "six major projects", vigorously nurturing distinctive and advantageous agricultural industries such as tomatoes, actively exploring new pathways to strengthen villages and enrich the people, striving to paint a vibrant picture of a "strong, prosperous, beautiful and excellent" new Dianzi.