Yizhou, a county-level city in Hechi, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, is an important industrial base for silk farming in China.

With silk farming one pillar of its agricultural industry, the city is focusing on building an industrial demonstration area for the sericulture industry. To further this aim, the local government has promoted its featured pattern of production and management, a system that will unite the resources of enterprises, cooperatives, farmers and the demonstration base.

The system will highlight integrated utilization of by-products generated by the silkworm industry, and will gradually establish an industrial chain consisting of farming edible mushrooms and mulberry silkworms, and silk reeling.

Workers at a silk weaving workshop in Yizhou Economic Development Zone, Hechi, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. [Photo by Gao Dongfeng/Xinhua]

A customer selects a silk scarf at a shop in Yizhou, Hechi, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. [Photo by Gao Dongfeng/Xinhua]

A large statue of a silkworm and silkworm pupas stands outside a silk company based in Yizhou. [Photo by Gao Dongfeng/Xinhua]

A female worker trims silk cloth at a production line. [Photo by Gao Dongfeng/Xinhua]