Photo:State Grid Jining

 

Photo:State Grid Jining

 
As one of China's top 10 edible mushroom production bases, Zoucheng, a city in Jining, Shandong Province, has prioritized edible fungus cultivation as part of its development strategy in recent years. With automated machinery and smart technologies, the city has disrupted traditional cultivation and accelerated the process of mechanization, intelligent transformation, and standardization, thus injecting a unique and strong "mushroom power" into rural industrial revitalization.

With full integration into the rural industrial revitalization over the years, State Grid Jining Power Supply Company has kept improving energy efficiency and services. In terms of grid support and quality services, it has made all-out efforts to upgrade the edible fungus industry and enhance the scale and quality of power supply, thus helping mushroom growers to raise awareness about "Zoucheng Mushrooms."

As an effort to fulfill its commitment of "power supply supporting development," State Grid Jining Power Supply Company has comprehensively upgraded the grid of the edible fungus industrial park to meet the needs of mushroom producers, such as building a new 30-kilometer 10 kV line, and upgrading the 35 kV Dashu Substation by replacing two main transformers with an additional capacity of 27,000 kVA.

Given the special requirements for power system safety and reliability in mushroom cultivation, production, and storage, the State Grid Jining Power Supply Company has conducted over 300 door-to-door visits and regular safety inspections of distribution rooms and production workshops to help clients eliminate potential hazards. With company-specific and line-specific power supply guarantee programs, as well as point-to-point monitoring and control of dedicated lines, the smooth operation of mushroom enterprises have been greatly assured.

Thanks to technological empowerment and reliable power supply, Zoucheng has grown 24.6 million square meters of edible mushrooms, with an annual output of 380,000 tons. The brand value of "Zoucheng Mushroom" has reached an estimated 1.714 billion yuan. To support the development of local specialty industries, State Grid Jining Power Supply Company will continue to better the business environment of the power sector, open "green lanes" for rural specialty industries, and build an easily accessible power service network. (Author: Zhu Lu, Yuan Hu)