Yichang has a long history of citrus cultivation, as long as 2000 years. Thanks to its good climate, it supplies an excellent environment for citrus growing. Citrus acreage in Yichang today is over 200 thousand mu (13,333 hectares). The annual citrus production reaches 200 thousand tons, which is unsurpassed in Hubei Province.
Yichang citrus fruit is of high quality with unique flavor. There are a great number of excellent citrus varieties in Yichang, such as the navel orange, one of the most famous, which is big and seedless.
Black Mu'er (Fungus)
It has a function of moisturizing the lung and cleaning intestines and stomach, and has a special effect to help digest fiber-enriched food. Black fungus has also the effect to replenish qi and strengthen the body, to stop bleeding, relieve pain, enrich the blood and promote blood circulation. It is commonly used in Chinese traditional medicine to cure cold and damp type lumbago and leg ache, cramp and numb in hand and foot, hemorrhoids bleeding, dysentery, uterine bleeding and asthenia after childbearing and other diseases.
Chestnut
It is one of Yichang's traditional specialities and famous for its big, delicious and rich nutritious. Its reddish pulp contains many nutrient materials such as protein, fat, sugar, starch, high quality edible fiber and so on. As the research shows that it has the function of improving blood circulation, building up constitution and prolonging life. The chestnut is well-known as 'The King of Preserved Fruit'.
Chinese Gooseberry
There are many wild grown species in Yichang and particularly, the Chinese gooseberry is the best. Sweet and sour, abundant with juicy and full-body fragrance, it contains many kinds of vitamins and proteins as well as essential minerals that human being needs such as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron and pectin. It is good raw material for food enterprise to produce series of gooseberry wines and other products with gooseberry-flavor. The Zigui-produced Chinese gooseberry cans are sold to all part of China.
