China's Spring Festival will see another cherry craze, Chilean scholars explain the reasons

According to the website of the Chilean Cooperative Radio, Mónica Ahumada, an expert on Asian issues at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Santiago, said that in 2005, Chile became the first Latin American country to sign a free trade agreement with China. At that time, the main products exported by Chile to China were copper, cellulose, fish meal, seafood and wine, and the top fresh fruit was grapes, ranking sixth. In 2012, Chile exported cherries to China for the first time. Driven by the strong demand of the Chinese market, cherries have now become Chile's third largest export product. As for the reason why Chilean cherries are popular in the Chinese market, Ahumada believes that the current purchasing power of China is completely different from that in the 1970s, and Chinese people now have the ability to consume cherries. In Chinese supermarkets, he has seen people put wine and cherries into carts. For Chinese people, diet is important, so fruit consumption is ...