Recently, the reporters learned from Guidong County that at the evaluation meeting of "Honey Town of China" held by China Bee Products Association, Guidong County stood out from 36 counties in the country and won the title of "Hometown of Chinese Wild Osmanthus Honey", the only county in the country to receive this honor. At the same time, the "Wild Osmanthus Honey" from Guidong County won the "Special Prize".

Guidong County has a good ecological environment, high forest coverage and abundant honey plant resources. It has 1.716 million mu of honey source mountain (forest) suitable for bee cultivation and over 1 million mu of high-quality flower-picking area,including 500,000 mu of wild osmanthus, which provides unique conditions for the development of the wild osmanthus honey industry.

In recent years, Guidong County has set up a leading group on bee industry development, formulated the development plan, listed the Apis cerana breeding as a key poverty alleviation project, and provided the reward and fun support to the key projects. For example, the county has invested 2 million yuan to establish the unified agricultural product quality testing center, improve the bee product testing system, implement the unified product quality standard and product testing system, and promote bee product quality and safety standards.

The county has adhered to the industrialized development model of "company + cooperative + farmer", constructed the industrialized management pattern of bee industry based on bee farmers, relying on professional cooperative organizations and leading enterprises, and formed a stable interest-linking mechanism with bee farmers through order contracts, bottom-guaranteed acquisition, adoption and subscription, profit dividend, etc. Up to now, the county has set up 2 bee companies, 8 professional beekeeping cooperatives, nearly 3,000 bee farmers, 60 centralized breeding bases with more than 50 boxes, 25 thousand groups of Apis cerana, 310 tons of honey annually, with an output value of 70 million yuan, including more than 150 tons of wild osmanthus honey.