Yellow peaches from Qingtian county are ready for export. [Photo/Tide News]

Recently, 105 kilograms of yellow peaches from Lishui's Qingtian county have passed customs inspection, becoming the first batch exported from Zhejiang province to Serbia. Lishui waxberries, snow pears, and water bamboo have also reached Spain, Italy, and Africa.

This follows years of developing the local specialty chain, with Lishui's agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery output reaching 19.38 billion yuan ($2.90 billion) in 2025, up 4.6 percent year-on-year, while the quality agriculture chain's output reached 81.35 billion yuan.

Lishui Shangeng, a regional public agricultural product brand, recorded 6.51 billion yuan in sales in 2025 and ranked first among prefecture-level cities, while 44 products were added to Zhejiang's famous local specialty list.

The city issued China's first technical regulation for wild-grown tea management in April 2025, and 11 producers passed tests by SGS, an international testing and certification organization, for 289 pesticide residues, with zero detection. Qingyuan county's wild tea output value also reached 96.11 million yuan, benefiting over 5,000 rural residents.

Order farming, wholesale markets, and livestreaming have broadened selling channels, with five 10-billion-yuan chains and 13 county-level chains having taken shape, while more than 1,000 common prosperity workshops provide jobs for over 77,000 people.

Lishui now aims to exceed 100 billion yuan in quality agriculture chain output by the end of the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30).