The 4th Navel Orange Fair and Opening Ceremony of 2015 Navel Orange Orchard were held on November 20th in Niuling Village, Guojia Town, Zigui County. More than 100 merchants from all over the country took docking discussions with the local enterprises and cooperatives and signed a purchase and sale agreement of 168,000 tons.

　　Among hundreds of companies, the most noticeable is the Dubai Mohamode Import & Export Trade Co. Limited which signed a sales contract with Zigui QuGu Food Co. Limited of 20000 tons of navel orange. Yichang Eighteen Bays Supply and Marketing Electronic Commerce Co. Limited signed a contract of 5000 tons with Zigui Qiaochu Supply and Marketing Electronic Commerce Co. Limited. "Internet plus " enterprises have officially become the major retailers for ZIgui’s navel orange sales. The director of Qiaochu Electronic Commerce Co. Limited said that they would take the advantages of e-commerce to directly sell the high quality navel oranges to consumers in more than 10 provinces and cities such as Beijing, Tianjin and Shandong.

　　Zigui will make full use of the "Internet plus", vigorously support rural e-commerce development, continue to push forward the cooperation with EQu mall, Taobao Hubei pavilion, and Taobao Yichang pavilion and explore more markets.

　　Zigui, hometown of navel oranges, is “A National Demonstration County with Pollution-Free Navel Orange Production Base", "National Create Green Food Production Base Demonstration County", and one of the best suitable places nation designated for navel orange cultivation.

　　At present, the total plantation area of Zigui navel oranges is more than 300,000 mu and the output is expected to be up to 360,000 tons this year which is a new record. The comprehensive benefit is expected to exceed 156.4 million yuan.

　　On that day, "Zigui Navel Orange Tourism Picking Base" was unveiled. Hubei ChuYun Travel Agency Co. Ltd signed a cooperation agreement with Niuling village to launch “The Orange Town Ship road Picking Season" and strive to achieve the goal of attracting 100000 orange-picking tourists in two years.

　　The County Government has promised that they will continue to carry out the preferential policies, including free navel orange vehicle quarantine fees, free overloading vehicles ferry fees and free information service fees, and offer agriculture priority refueling cards to processing enterprises and transport vehicles during the purchase and sales of navel oranges. They will resolutely safeguard the fair trade environment and protect the legitimate rights and interests of merchants and the navel orange farmers.