On the afternoon of June 19, Chen Xuechu, Deputy Secretary of Municipal Party Committee, required to grasp the current and focus on long-term in the investigation of city tobacco production to promote the sustained and stable development of the tobacco industry in whole city.

Since the winter of last year, the city departments at all levels have worked together to take active and effective measures for tobacco planting area steadily, and a total of 423,000 mu of tobacco industry area were implemented, an increase of 3000 mu; the contract acquisition volume reached 10.68 million dan, an increase of 18,000 dan and benefiting farmers of 22,097 households. At present, the tobacco fields grow in a balanced and promising environment to lay a solid foundation for the completion of the annual acquisition task.

Chen Xuechu and his entourage went to the Hongyun Cooperative in Renyi Town Guiyang County, hail suppression point in Fragrance Hill of Aoquan Town, and Baidu Village in Heping Town to field inspect the tobacco cultivation, baking, disaster prevention and disaster relief work.

Chen Xuechu pointed out that Chenzhou has the history and advantages of tobacco and planting tobacco is an important channel for farmers to increase income. After these years of development, the tobacco industry in our city has a good foundation in the production scale, security system, brand awareness and other respects. The next step s are to strengthen the tobacco field management and grasp the tobacco maturity to ensure the overall quality of tobacco this year. To strengthen the weather forecast and do a good job in disaster prevention and mitigation. To do a good job in tobacco purchase, maintaining a good market order, and particularly safeguarding the interests of tobacco growers to protect the enthusiasm of farmers for tobacco. To solidly promote the construction of modern tobacco agriculture, and the full completion of comprehensive land consolidation, supporting and smoke based projects to improve the city's tobacco production capacity. To play a good role in tobacco planting driven poor households out of poverty and take tobacco planting industry as one of the main ways to get rid of poverty in the suitable place. The tobacco companies and cooperatives should strengthen the technical services and guidance. To focus on long-term and train a number of modern new professional farmers through technical training and tobacco planting professional with vocational schools to prepare talents for the tobacco planting scale, specialization and sustainable development in our city.