"Villagers can work flexible hours based on their time and strength to participate in herbal medicine processing," said Zhao Huijie, secretary of the Party general branch in Xiaomiaozi village.

For example, removing the platycodon grandiflorum peel can earn a worker at least 100 yuan a day.

The original ecological environment and green planting methods have made the quality of the medicinal ingredients recognized by many pharmaceutical factories, and the processed products have been exported to South Korea and Japan in recent years, Zhao said.