Fifty-one products from 30 enterprises in North China's Shanxi province have passed the food supply evaluation to enter the market in Shenzhen, a port city in South China's Guangdong province. 

Passing the evaluation has made Shanxi the largest province certified to provide food products to Shenzhen, except for Guangdong province. The recognized food products from Shanxi cover seven categories: processed grain products, edible vegetable oil, vegetables, fruits, seasonings and livestock products.

Early in June last year, Shanxi and Shenzhen reached an agreement to supply the southern metropolis with the province's high-quality agricultural products. 

To create and promote more brands to supply food to Shenzhen, Shanxi Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has selected 40 pollution-free organic agricultural product companies with a strong foundation, great potential and promising future to carry out the work. Their high-quality farm produce includes mature vinegar, millet, linseed oil, apples and mutton, all of which have successively entered major supermarkets in Shenzhen. 

"Our cooperative's millet was selected as one of the agricultural products for Shenzhen and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in 2020. Now, the millet price is 20 yuan ($3.09) per kilogram, which has helped villagers increase their incomes by more than 1,200 yuan per mu (666.67 square meters)," said Wang Ping, chairman of Longhua Millet Professional Cooperative in the province's Yicheng county.

Shanxi province has carried out the identification of farm produce bases supplying food to Shenzhen. It recognized 10 bases involving 136 square kilometers of grain and oil crops, 2 million breeding hens and 60,000 sheep in 2020, which has further promoted the province's agricultural specialties in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.