On September 19, the seventh Yichang (Yiling) Citrus Festival was held in Xiaoxita Street, Yiling District, Hubei Province. On the same day, representatives of businessmen from Russia, Thailand and China signed a citrus sales agreement of 480,000 tons with citrus enterprises in Yiling District, amounting to 2.1 billion yuan.

　　On the same day, JD Logistics sent out the first five "Yichang Citrus Special Vehicles", which transported Yichang Tangerine quickly to consumers across China by road, rail, air and other means.

　　Since 2017, JD Logistics has started to cooperate closely with Yichang Citrus. Every year from mid-late September to the eve of the Spring Festival, special staff will be arranged to serve the local orange farmers. The logistics vehicles will be opened to the orchard. After the citrus picking, the fruit will be sorted out and packaged immediately, so the picked citrus can be sent straight to Wuhan on the same day. According to the related person in charge of Yichang Citrus Project of JD Logistics this year, JD is still discussing the opening of special lines for Yichang Citrus to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places.

　　“Yiling citrus tastes good with high quality. I will come to Yiling District every year in the future.” Marina, a citrus merchant from Irkutsk, Russia, said after she tasted Yichang Tangerine. She plans to further deepened cooperation with Hubei Xingxiang Agricultural Products Professional Cooperative Association in the future, and increase the amount of purchases, making more Russian people taste citrus of Yiling District.

　　Yiling District is the “Hometown of Chinese Citrus”. Nearly half of the farmers in the district are mainly engaged in citrus, forming 3 citrus professional towns and 66 citrus professional villages, with a total area of 232 square kilometers and an annual output of 810,000 tons of citrus.

　　In recent years, Yiling District, relying on the geographical advantage as the world's citrus "seed resource bank", has made every effort to promote the construction of large-scale, standardization, industrialization, science and technology, branding, trying to promote the continuous improvement of citrus quality and scale. Yichang Citrus and its processed products sell well all over the world, with a total output value exceeding 2.7 billion yuan.(Reporter: Huang Shanguo; Correspondent: Li Chongqing)