With the flourishing peach industry, local farmers in Menyin County in east 
China's Shandong Province enjoy both the sweet peach aroma and handsome incomes 
during the summertime.

Boasting favorable geographic conditions, Mengyin has dedicated to peach 
industry since 1980s. Forty years on, it has become the largest county in the 
country in terms of peach planting area and peach output.

Mengyin's peach industry has followed a high-quality development path. It has 
developed 500,000 mu (about 33,333 hectares) of premium peach base by setting 
up peach-related scientific research platforms, training professional farmers 
and applying scientific approaches.

To accommodate to dynamic market demands, Mengyin has constantly adjusted and 
optimized its peach planting structure. Every year, 2 to 4 new varieties will 
be promoted across the county. From early spring to early winter, 200 varieties 
of Mengyin peaches are on sale in the market.

Thanks to the partnership with e-commerce platform Taobao, the Mengyin quality 
peach has gone viral in China and the overseas market, such as Singapore, 
Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Russia and Japan, with daily e-commerce 
deals of over 80,000.

The increasing popularity of honey peaches has driven the rapid development of 
transportation, logistics, storage, deep processing, and rural tourism in the 
county, where over 100,000 local people have sought a fortune.

Besides efforts in boosting the peach industry, the county is also promoting 
rural tourism.The peach county tour sees more than 2 million tourists annually 
and generates industrial value of over 1 billion yuan (about 147.23 million 
U.S. dollars).

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SOURCE  Xinhua Silk Road

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   Caption: Photo shows that two farmers harvest Mengyin peaches in Mengyin 
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