Apples from Gansu grow on foreign markets

Officials from Pingliang customs check fresh apples destined for export at Jingning County Redleofu Fruit Industry in Pingliang, Gansu province in April. Workers driving forklifts shuttling between the storage warehouse and processing workshop poured baskets of fresh apples onto the automated sorting line at Jingning County Redleofu Fruit Industry in Pingliang, Gansu province. Gansu exported fresh apples valued at 190 million yuan from January to March, with 37 percent going to Vietnam, making it the biggest overseas market, data from Lanzhou customs showed. Wang Zhiwei, general manager of Jingning County Redleofu Fruit Industry, said customs personnel have visited the company multiple times to provide guidance and help it apply for the most suitable certificates of origin.