Lao Song Melon Garden

Lao Song Melon Garden

Beijing Lao Song Melon King Technology Development Co., Ltd. was established in April 2003. Relying on Lao Song Melon Garden and adopting an industrialized management model, it is a high-tech enterprise integrating scientific research and development, technology experimentation and demonstration, production and sales, tourism, leisure picking, promotion and application of new technologies, and training. It has been successively awarded titles such as “Beijing Sightseeing Agriculture Demonstration Garden,” “Best Sightseeing and Picking Garden,” “China Famous Brand,” “2008–Contribution Award for Catering Raw Material Supply Work,” “China Food Industry Quality-Assured Brand,” and “National Quality Supervision and Inspection Qualified – Nationally Trusted Quality Product.” The company’s general manager, Song Shaotang, has also received numerous honors including “Outstanding Patriotic Figure,” “National Rural Youth Entrepreneurship and Wealth Creation Leader,” “Top Ten Outstanding Youths at Beijing Municipal and District Levels,” “Beijing Outstanding Practical Talent,” “30-Year China Brand Outstanding Figure,” “China Pride · 8th China Era Top Ten Outstanding Entrepreneurs,” “60-Year China Economic Hundred Outstanding Figures,” and “Olympic Torch Bearer.”

The company has now become a social practice base for multiple universities and colleges, as well as a foreign affairs exchange base for Beijing’s youth. In 2008, it invested over 6 million yuan to build the “Lao Song Melon Art Garden” multi-span greenhouse. With the four concepts of “nature, art, culture, and technology,” it showcases melon culture and cultivation techniques, and is currently the most “clearly themed, culturally rich, artistically refined, and technologically advanced” watermelon-themed park in China.

Address: Panggezhuang, Daxing District, Beijing (near the Panggezhuang Bridge on the Jingkai Expressway)

Type: Fruit Picking / Agritainment

Phone: 010-57277750

Opening Hours:

Peak Season: 7:30–19:00; Off-Season: 8:00–17:00

Ticket Information:

Free entry. There is no admission fee to enter the melon garden, but food, fruit picking, and the Watermelon Museum are charged separately.

Source: Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development