Chen Xuemei, the "Fruit Queen" of Henan Province: I had a casual conversation with Cambodian Prime Minister Hong Manet

On November 11, 2024, Henan Daily, 03 Edition

From November 6th to 7th, Prime Minister Hong Manai of the Kingdom of Cambodia led a team to attend a series of important summits such as the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation held in Kunming. During the meeting, Hong Manai had a cordial meeting with Chen Xuemei, a Henan female entrepreneur known as the "fruit queen" in the industry and chairman of Zhengzhou Chen's Sun Fruit and Vegetable Trading Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Chen's Sun"), for half an hour. The meeting experience was written on his social account, once again expressing his appreciation for Chen's Sun and Chen Xuemei.

Talk with the prime minister of a country, win the recognition and praise of the prime minister, and show the demeanor and strength of Henan entrepreneurs on the international stage-Chen Xuemei, it's really good!

On November 10, the reporter interviewed Chen Xuemei, who had just returned to Henan, and listened to her story about "making a family life" with Hongmanai.

Prime Minister of a country and "fruit queen", this is a "family" meeting

At 8:30 on November 6, when Chen Xuemei walked into the reception room, he saw Hong Manai greeting her with a smile on his face and took the initiative to extend his right hand to her. Chen Xuemei said that holding hands with Hongmanai can clearly feel the sincerity and enthusiasm of the Prime Minister.

At the end of April, Chen Xuemei visited Cambodia with a provincial government delegation and met Cambodian Tourism Minister Song Suken and other leaders. However, due to the "schedule problem", he did not see Hongmanai and always felt very regretful. "I briefly reviewed the visit and expressed to the Prime Minister my pleasure at seeing him in person." Chen Xuemei's "opening remarks" narrowed the distance between the two sides and received a positive response from Hong Manai, and the atmosphere of the talks became relaxed and harmonious.

As a global high quality fruit supply chain operator, Chen's Sun integrates the core resources of more than 120 high quality fruit bases in more than 40 countries around the world, strictly controls fruit planting, harvesting, sorting, grading, refrigeration, packaging, logistics and distribution in accordance with international standards, promotes fruit quality upgrading, and realizes the efficient link of fruit supply, marketing, matching and service. "Chen's Sun's development model is of particular interest to the Prime Minister, who believes that it can complement each other's advantages and help Cambodia's fruit industry to 'upgrade and upgrade '." Hong Manai also introduced Cambodia's policy advantages to Chen Xuemei and drew a blueprint for cooperation. He hoped that the cooperation with Chen's Sun would continue to deepen and expand.

The exchanges between the two sides have become deeper and more speculative, and the talks have yielded good results.

"I also introduced my entrepreneurial experience and family situation. The Prime Minister was very happy and laughed several times." Chen Xuemei said that Hongmanai is mature, calm and amiable, which makes people have the desire to talk and gives people the feeling of spring breeze. In half an hour, from work to life, from cooperation details to parents, formal business talks on international occasions are particularly warm and become a "family" meeting.

From the land of Central Plains to the Kingdom of Cambodia, 6 years of deep cultivation of "people's blind date"

Battambang Province, located in the northwest of Cambodia, is in close contact with Henan Province, more than 2000 kilometers away, in a magical way.

Chen Xuemei told reporters that Chen's Sun has cooperated with local enterprises and transferred more than 2500 mu of orchards. It is carrying out infrastructure construction in full swing and plans to use Henan funds, Henan technology and Henan equipment to grow "Henan durian" in Cambodia ".

The friendship between nations lies in the closeness of the people. Hong Manai's cordial meeting with Chen Xuemei not only reflects his ardent expectations for industrial development, but also reflects his high praise for "people-to-people dating.

The fate between Chen's Sun and Cambodia began in 2018. Chen Xuemei visited Cambodia with a business delegation from the Department of Commerce and gained a lot. "Cambodia's business environment is very good, and it is very welcome and friendly to Chinese businessmen; the local climate is suitable, and the fruits are rich and of good quality." Chen Xuemei said that Chen's Sun has made great efforts to trade with Cambodia, transporting Cambodia's high-quality mangoes, longans and durians to Henan for distribution throughout the country. While enriching the fruit baskets and dining tables of the Chinese people, it will help Cambodia's industrial development and increase the income of fruit farmers.

The Henan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government attach great importance to the development of international trade, vigorously support entrepreneurs to "go global", pay special attention to Chen Sunshine's fruit introduction business, and encourage Chen's Sun to further emancipate the mind and increase international cooperation.

Under this circumstance, Chen's Sun began planning to build a durian planting base in Cambodia last year. Today, the construction of the project is very smooth, and supporting facilities such as agricultural industrial parks are accelerating.

"Meeting the Prime Minister will give me another 'reassurance '!" Chen Xuemei said that Chen's Sun will do its best to do a good job in Cambodia's durian planting base project, establish a good external image of Henan enterprises, and add more bricks and tiles to the bridge of friendship between the Central Plains and the Kingdom of Cambodia.

Take advantage of the airport to create a high-end fruit distribution center

Over the Zhengzhou Airport Economic Comprehensive Experimental Zone, planes shuttle back and forth, including Chen's Sunshine high-end imported fruit charter flights.

According to Guo Lichao, director of the Zhengzhou Airport Port Administration, as a designated supervision site for imported fruits, the total weight of imported fruits at Zhengzhou Airport from January to September 2024 was 1776.54 tons, an increase of 352 percent over the same period last year, and the value of goods was 54.9552 million yuan, an increase of 163.2 percent over the same period last year.

In recent years, the Port Administration of Zhengzhou Airport Area has closely focused on the strategic positioning of Zhengzhou Airport's "Air Silk Road Pilot Area", fully optimized the port business environment, and promoted the construction of logistics projects such as "Great Customs Clearance" and the second phase of meat ports. Promote the development of multimodal transportation such as "air-to-air transit", "air-rail combined transportation" and "road-rail combined transportation", effectively reduce enterprise logistics costs, and lay a solid foundation for cold chain warehousing and logistics distribution, actively build a distribution center for high-end fruits and fresh agricultural products, and successfully support the import of high-quality fruits such as "Chilean cherries", "Malay fresh durian", "Thai mangosteen" and "Canadian fresh cherry" from Zhengzhou Airport.

"We have visited Chen's Sun many times, listened to the needs of enterprises, and introduced high-end fruits for enterprises to" pave roads and build bridges "and escort them." Guo Lichao said that up to now, Zhengzhou Airport has opened 54 all-cargo routes, 59 navigable cities, 4 new fresh charter flights, 16 flights per week, covering Southeast Asia, South America and other regions. At the same time, Zhengzhou Airport also has the unique advantage of "four ports linkage", which can quickly distribute high-end fruits to all parts of the country with the help of multimodal transport such as "air-to-air transit.

"I have also reported these cooperation advantages to Prime Minister Hongmanai one by one." Chen Xuemei said that Henan has emerged as a distribution center for high-end fruits and fresh agricultural products. On behalf of Henan fruit enterprises, she extended an invitation to the Prime Minister to personally come to cheer for this event.

"The Prime Minister was very happy to agree to my invitation and shook my hand at the end of the meeting and said 'OK, OK'." Chen Xuemei said that she will live up to the expectations of the party committees and governments at all levels in Cambodia and Henan Province, give full play to her own advantages, and build the Cambodian project into a successful model of agricultural cooperation between Henan and Cambodia, and a new bright spot for Henan's agricultural industry chain to go to sea.

Note The above report comes from: Henan Daily Reporter: Yang Ling Zhao Tongzeng Correspondent: Ma Lingxiao