An edible mushroom workshop in Qingyuan, a county in Lishui, is the latest revelation of the city’s innovative development model. 

Annually providing over 10 million high-quality mushroom sticks, the workshop has not only resolved employment issues for idle workers but also uplift the income per capita by nearly 40,000 yuan ($5,605.22), contributing 150,000 yuan to the village's collective economic growth.

Since last year, Lishui has championed the workshops for shared wealth initiative, establishing 837 such workshops and benefiting more than 60,000 residents with an average income increase of over 20,000 yuan. 

Staff work in the sanitized workshop. [Photo/WeChat account: ls-mnews]

The city is committed to the initiative, formulating the workshop’s construction and management regulations released in May this year.

Emphasizing a model that focuses on service and organization, the city created 50 demonstration workshops with 16 of them becoming exemplary. Workshops in Suichang county utilize natural resources – the bamboo leaf, which delivered an annual bamboo leaf output value of nearly 100 million yuan, raising the average income of 8,000 residents by 18,000 yuan.

In Daping community, Yunhe county, workshops for wooden toys have successfully addressed the employment needs of relocated individuals, disbursing over 8 million yuan in labor wages to more than 500 people in all.

Lishui's commitment to diverse economic sectors and innovative development models ensures that benefits flow back to farmers and rural areas. To facilitate transportation, a multi-layered logistic system has been set up, dispatching over 25.84 million workshop products, contributing to a substantial sales revenue of over 1.03 billion yuan for agricultural specialties.