Tianjin： A ＂vegetable basket＂ brings happiness.

The vegetable market is an infrastructure to ensure the supply of a city, which is related to the "vegetable basket" of the people, and behind it is the people’s expectation for a better life. In recent years, the upgrading and upgrading of Tianjin vegetable market has been on the fast track. While the "face value" and "connotation" have been improved, it also implies a city’s cultural heritage, which makes the bustling vegetable market full of Gankun and "fireworks".

Facilitating the people and benefiting the people "circle" the fireworks of life

On the weekend afternoon, we walked into the Hanhai Yayuan vegetable market in Haitang Street, Jinnan District. The citizens chose fresh ingredients in groups of three or two, and the sales staff screamed one after another, and the rich life atmosphere came to us.

Aunt Li, a nearby resident, first picked a few potatoes and tomatoes, put them in her canvas bag, and then walked to the fresh meat area, which took less than 5 minutes from the door to the checkout. Once upon a time, Aunt Li had to pull a cart when she went out to buy food, take several bus stops, and buy food for a week. "Now going downstairs is a vegetable market. The food is not only complete, but also very fresh. It doesn’t take much trouble to come every day!"

Hanhai Yayuan vegetable market is rich in dishes, which greatly facilitates the surrounding residents. People’s Daily reporter Sun Yifei photo

The Hanhai Yayuan Vegetable Market, which Aunt Li comes to every day, has a building area of 1,000.36 square meters and is divided into two floors. On the first floor, fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, grain, oil and non-staple food are sold to meet the basic consumption of the surrounding residents. On the second floor, the food city is convenient for office workers and students to eat. Not only small bowls and exquisite dishes are introduced, but also different cuisines such as Sichuan and Lu Yu are introduced.

"The agricultural products in the vegetable market are produced from our own bases. We adopt the business model of unified procurement, unified distribution, unified operation and unified management to minimize intermediate circulation links." Niu Shiwei, manager of Tianjin Jinnan District Supply and Marketing Wanjia Commodity Sales Co., Ltd., the operator of Hanhai Yayuan Vegetable Market, said that since its opening on April 29, 2023, the vegetable market has solved the problem of buying food for nearly 10,000 people in several surrounding commercial houses.

Hanhai Yayuan Vegetable Market is a microcosm of Tianjin’s continuous efforts to build a convenient life circle for a quarter of an hour. This year, Tianjin will build 10 high-quality cities with reasonable layout, complete formats, perfect functions, wisdom and convenience, and better meet the convenience, diversification and quality needs of 254,400 residents in 56 communities in the circle.

Innovating and Upgrading to Create a New Smart Vegetable Market

Sweep the QR code on the shopping receipt, and you can trace the purchased goods … In Yuexiu Vegetable Market in Hexi District, customers can easily feel the convenience brought by the intelligent transformation of the vegetable market.

"Look at the beans I bought, and you will know the test results of’ pyrethroid pesticide residues’ when you scan them. The sampling time, booth number and boss name are all there." Uncle Li just bought a bag of vegetables and pointed to the big electronic screen at the door and said, "If it’s too troublesome, you can also see from the electronic screen at the door that whoever sells the vegetables is unqualified."

Through the electronic screen of Yuexiu vegetable market, customers can trace the commodity information. People’s Daily reporter Sun Yifei photo

Yuexiu Vegetable Market is the first chain-like smart vegetable market in Tianjin. With the help of advanced technologies such as Internet, Internet of Things and big data, the traditional vegetable market has been intelligently empowered, and a smart market operation and management model of interconnection between physical merchants and online platforms, online and offline interaction, interoperability between merchants and consumers, and integration of upstream and downstream industrial chains has been carefully created, effectively expanding the radiation scope of traditional vegetable markets, providing convenience for consumers to buy food online, and having a demonstration and leading effect in the whole city.

Through the display data of the intelligent information screen in the market, customers can clearly know the merchant information and business license; Specially set up a platform distribution area, and online orders within 2 kilometers around can be delivered in one hour without contact; Create the first online live broadcast area of vegetable market in Tianjin, and regularly organize online live broadcast by market merchants and high-quality agricultural products manufacturers … Yuexiu vegetable market is constantly upgrading and becoming more "smart" and "transparent".

Yuexiu vegetable market is full of customers. People’s Daily reporter Sun Yifei photo

Under the demonstration effect of Yuexiu vegetable market, at present, more and more vegetable markets in Tianjin have become more intelligent. "Next, a number of leading enterprises and chain smart vegetable markets will be built and opened to create a shopping environment with safer food, more standardized management and more convenient smart functions for Jincheng people." The relevant person in charge of the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Commerce said.

Enhance the inside information and breed the "cultural living room" at home.

In Tianjin, when it comes to Zhongshan Road Vegetable Market in Hebei, people all know that it is a popular punching place for young people, just like Sanyuanli in Beijing, Wuzhong Market in Shanghai, Yulin Comprehensive Market in Chengdu and Daoli Vegetable Market in Harbin.

Zhongshan road vegetable market. People’s Daily reporter Sun Yifei photo

"The earliest food market in Tianjin was in …" As soon as I entered the Zhongshan Road vegetable market, I looked up and saw that the ceiling at the entrance read Popular Science in the vegetable market. On the second floor, you can see the signs, furnishings and layout of old shops, as well as the scenes when people shop. Markets in Ming and Qing Dynasties, modern grain stores, supply and marketing cooperatives, and farmers’ markets … The formats of market operations and the materials sold in different periods are clear at a glance.

The second floor of Zhongshan Road Vegetable Market is the first vegetable market museum in China. The museum on the second floor and the sales area on the first floor form a silent dialogue, which highlights the historical tension. Customers travel in different time dimensions and feel different styles of fireworks.

The first vegetable market museum in China. People’s Daily reporter Sun Yifei photo

The vegetable market can be called the "cultural living room" at home. Nowadays, the vegetable market is also regarded as a new type of public cultural space, which allows the power of culture to infiltrate the soul and light up the city in the process of appealing to both refined and popular tastes. Even if the market is ordinary as a vegetable market, people can be educated, people can benefit from literature, cities can be run by literature, and businesses can be prospered by literature.

Jess Zhang, Secretary-General of Tianjin Vegetable Market Management Service Industry Association, said that many vegetable market managers are planning to build online celebrity vegetable market this year to attract more foreign tourists in line with the development of cultural tourism in Tianjin. "We hope that tourists from all over the country can experience the people’s livelihood in Tianjin and make the lives of ordinary people in Tianjin more colorful."