CCTV News: The 9th Asian Winter Games are currently in full swing in Harbin. This ice and snow event not only ignited the enthusiasm for sports in Asia, but also became a new window for the display and development of the Heilongjiang grain industry.

As the largest grain-producing province in China, Heilongjiang took the Asian Winter Games as an opportunity to integrate the high-quality agricultural products of the "black soil granary" into event services, cultural and tourism consumption and brand promotion, and wrote a unique chapter of "ice and snow set up a stage and grain plays". This winter, what kind of sparks will arise when the Ashen Winter encounters the black soil?

There are many delicious foods in the news center, and local characteristics are the only ones

CCTV reporter Zheng Yizhe: I came to Harbin, Heilongjiang to report the Asian Winter Games on a business trip. Before I left, I heard that there are a lot of delicious local foods. Stewed goose in iron pot, sticky bean buns, Panjin rice, Wuchang rice...

In 2024, the total grain output of Heilongjiang Province exceeded 160 billion jin, and ranked first in the country for 15 consecutive years. So it’s not surprising that a lot of the things I eat in the media center come from the local area. But speaking of the relationship between the Asian Winter Association and local food is actually closer than we imagined.

The mascot of Harbin last hosted the Asian Winter Games was based on soybeans

At the entrance of Harbin Central Street, there is a Double Asian Winter City Memorial Collection Hall. On the wall of the staircase leading to the second floor are all work permits and souvenirs for the 3rd Asian Winter Games held from February 4 to 11, 1996. You can see this mascot of this year in these collections, Doudou! It is designed with soybeans as a prototype.

It was the first intercontinental comprehensive winter sports meeting held by China at that time, and of course it was of great significance. Why choose soybeans as mascot? Because soybeans were a very representative crop in Heilongjiang area at that time. Using soybeans as mascot not only has strong regional characteristics, but also demonstrates the local agricultural advantages.

Heilongjiang soybean planting area accounts for 60% of the country

Central TV CCTV reporter Zheng Yizhe: You can see that what I am holding is locally produced in Heilongjiang, and its planting area and output are the highest in the country. In terms of planting area alone, the planting area of ​​Heilongjiang soybeans accounts for about 60% of the country.

The "hidden model" specialty broke the circle: Asia's largest cranberry planting base

In fact, in addition to traditional grain crops such as soybean and rice, I came to the Heilongjiang Provincial Supply and Marketing Cooperative Black Soil Premium Product Selection Center, let us explore and discover the agricultural local specialties of Heilongjiang hidden model.

The Dongji of the motherland, Heilongjiang has the largest cranberry planting base in Asia in Fuyuan, Heilongjiang, with a planting area of ​​4,200 acres. Moreover, the cranberry seeds it planted were actually used to breed in space by Shenzhou 14 manned spacecraft and Shenzhou 16 manned spacecraft. Therefore, the cultivation varieties of cranberry with my country's independent intellectual property rights have been cultivated.

Daqing, known as the "City of Hundred Lakes", is not just an important oil field in my country. It uses the local rich wetland resources to produce a large number of cold-water fish.

Yichun is located in the hinterland of Little Khingan Mountains. The blueberries, birch sap, pine nuts, and hazel mushrooms in Little Khingan Mountains are all agricultural products with very regional characteristics.

In this exhibition hall, I feel that Heilongjiang can really hide it. It not only provides 11% of the country's grain production, but also has the largest cranberry producing area in Asia, and has quietly provided the whole country with a large number of cold-water fish and mountain delicacies. Seeing such a rich agricultural product brings us a great sense of security.

Northeast food is thousands of dollars, which one can be used as a hidden product?

CCTV reporter Zheng Yizhe: After eating and drinking, let’s go to this year’s Asian Winter Games souvenir shop. We noticed that there is a Northeast food theme series of blind boxes, including frozen pears, frozen persimmons, stewed mushrooms in chickens, as well as red sausage, pot buns of meat and ice cream. But here, we can see that there are two hidden models.

In fact, these two hidden models are Binbin and Nini who are holding the grassroots and tree bark in my hands. This is an allusion that when General Yang Jingyu was extended to the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, he used tree bark and grassroots to fill his stomach while the enemy was encircled and blocked by the enemy and his food was cut off.

There are souvenirs for Asian Winter Games, but among these thousands of delicacies, Harbin still strives to squeeze out two most important hidden places, giving this history.

From having a meal, to having a full meal, to having a good meal.

Heilongjiang, as a large granary in Northeast China, shoulders heavy responsibilities. Every inch of black soil here is watered by hard sweat. This meal, every rice and a grain of rice, not only nurtured thousands of Chinese people, but also forged the spirit of the Chinese nation to be indomitable and never give up.