Twelve Fruits of Pinggu

Twelve Fruits of Pinggu

　　Beijing’s Pinggu District is not only China’s Peach Capital but also a veritable kingdom of fruits.

　　Fruit orchards and peach groves cover 15% and 28% of the district’s land area, respectively. The region boasts a wide variety of common northern dried and fresh fruits, among which the “Twelve Fruits of Pinggu”—represented by 12 major tree-grown fruit varieties including peaches, jujubes, apricots, hawthorns, grapes, walnuts, cherries, apples, persimmons, plums, chestnuts, and pears, with over 500 cultivars—highlight the diversity and abundance of Pinggu’s fruit kingdom.