Yuxi Municipal People's Government
Orange Tourism Cultural Festival in Huaning County
Huaning has the agreeable climate for orange growing. According to historical records, the area had planted oranges as early as Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty. Files of Li County from the Republic of China also records that the major agricultural products of the county included orange. With the long tradition of orange growing and several decades of cultivating, oranges grown in Huaning are famous for early maturing and high quality. Because oranges from Huaning have the characteristics of early maturing, high yielding, good quality, appropriate proportion of sweetness and sourness, and containing rich vitamins, they won gold medal and silver medal in the first and the second China Agricultural Expositions respectively and was approved to be high quality product by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Qiuboxi, the brand of Huaning oranges, has become standardized with scientific management and commercialization of distribution. By the end of 2007, the planting area had reached 40,398 mu and the yield had amounted to 44,372 tons with a sales income of 71.2 million yuan. Its oranges are sold in the whole province as well as Guizhou, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Anhui, Hebei, Tianjin, Heilongjiang, and Xinjiang, and the sales are expanding in Canada, Russia and Southeast Asian countries. At the moment, oranges have been planted in Huaxi, Panxi, Qinglong and Tonghongdian in 150 villages of 35 village committees with 7,482 families in total. Huaning has become the biggest orange growing base in Yunnan and thus has been called the home of oranges.
Orange production has been taken as the characteristic industry in its construction of open eco-agriculture county in Huaning. Since 2000, seven orange festivals have been held to promote Qiuboxi brand which has been well received by markets within and outside the province. To optimize its resources, in 2003, Huaning started “oranges turn red” eco-tourism route to further promote Qiuboxi and the image of Huaning.
The orange festival is held in 9th to 13th September every year starting from 2008.
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