Beijing Sijiqing Fruit Tree Research Institute Sightseeing and Picking Garden

Beijing Sijiqing Fruit Tree Research Institute Sightseeing and Picking Garden

Located at the foot of Fragrant Hills in the western scenic area of Beijing, overlooking Yuquan Mountain to the north, adjacent to the Fourth Ring Road to the east, and the Fifth Ring Road to the west, it is the sightseeing and fruit-picking orchard closest to the city center in Beijing. Covering an area of 14 hectares, it has over 30 technical and management personnel. It is a diversified collective enterprise that integrates research and development of sweet cherries, high-efficiency premium production, propagation of quality seedlings, promotion of new cultivation techniques, marketing of products and seedlings, as well as tourism, sightseeing, and fruit-picking services.

The cherry sightseeing orchard of the Fruit Tree Research Institute has introduced and cultivated over a hundred domestic and international cherry varieties, making it the picking garden with the most diverse cherry varieties in Beijing. It also grows other fruits such as apricots, nectarines, crabapples, and jujubes. The cherry planting area spans over a hundred acres, and the garden has introduced more than 30 premium varieties including Sijiqing Early Red, Hongdeng Superior Strain, JuHong, JiaHong, MeiHong, Pioneer, and Samito, which have received positive feedback and praise from the market and consumers. The garden focuses on balancing early, mid, and late-season varieties, extending the cherry harvest period and enriching the market supply. It has been designated as a “Sweet Cherry Demonstration Base” by the Beijing Fruit Tree Society, a “Haidian Premium Cherry Variety Demonstration Base” by the Beijing Science and Technology Commission, an “Outstanding Standardized Fruit Production Demonstration Unit” in Beijing, and has obtained Beijing’s Safe Edible Agricultural Products Certification. It was also recognized by the Capital Greening Committee as a “Capital Greening and Beautification Garden-Style Unit.”

The orchard features a garden-style design, delicate, elegant, and classic in style. It offers a picturesque landscape with mountains, water, and scenery, and is planted with hundreds of rare trees and flowering shrubs. The surrounding area is enclosed with European-style protective railings. There is a leisure area of over 3,000 square meters (featuring pavilions, wooden bridges, rockeries, waterside pavilions, and various plants and trees, all labeled to provide educational value alongside sightseeing and fruit picking), a dining area of over 2,000 square meters, a self-service restaurant of over 200 square meters, and a shaded dining service area of over 1,000 square meters. With its elegant environment and complete facilities, it attracts a continuous stream of visitors. During peak tourist seasons, it receives up to a thousand visitors daily, providing citizens with an ideal destination for sightseeing, fruit picking, and leisure, nestled in a green valley and oxygen-rich environment. It also generates commendable economic and social benefits for enterprises.

Every year from mid-May to late June, the Sweet Cherry Tourism, Sightseeing, and Picking Festival is held. Now in its tenth edition, it has gained popularity among local citizens, with an increasing number of visitors each year. In early spring, the orchard bursts with blooming flowers; spring brings glistening cherries and golden apricots, summer offers juicy sweet peaches, autumn features dates and crabapples, and even in late autumn and early winter, winter red fruits can be picked. In 2004, cherry varieties such as “Hongyan,” “Hongmi,” and “Hongdeng” from this orchard were awarded four prizes—“Gold Award,” “First Prize,” “Second Prize,” and “Third Prize”—in the “Beijing Famous Fruits Public Evaluation” event organized by the Beijing Rural Work Committee, the Municipal Forestry Bureau, the Beijing Fruit Industry Association, the Beijing Fruit Tree Society, and the Million Citizens’ Fruit Picking Activity Organizing Committee. This has made our cherry products especially popular among citizens and tourists.

Source: Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development

Sijiqing Area: Sijiqing Town is located in the western scenic area of Beijing. The town government is stationed at No. 29 Dongran Village, covering an area of 76 square kilometers with a population of 74,700. It governs 14 village committees: Shuguang, Xiran, Changqing, Jushan, Gaizhuang, Yuquan, Shuangxin, Xishan, Fragrant Hills, Zhenxing, Tiancun, Mentou, Baoshan, and Landianchang. Nestled at the foot of the world-renowned Fragrant Hills, known for their “autumn leaves redder than February flowers,” it borders the “Buddhist sacred site” Badachu to the west, and the “imperial gardens” Yuquan Mountain and the Summer Palace to the north, spanning an area of 72.6 square kilometers.

Postal code: 100081

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