Pinggu's peach orchard [Photo via tuchong.com]

Pinggu District is located in the northeast of Beijing, covering a total area of 948.24 square kilometers. It administers two sub-districts, 16 towns and townships, and 272 villages. By the end of 2024, its permanent population was 455,000, and its GDP reached 57.05 billion yuan.

Pinggu District is reputed for its fairly long history. As early as the Paleolithic Age, which was tens of thousands of years or even 100,000 years ago, human beings already started to live in this place. Nearly 6,700 years ago, the locals fostered the brilliant and splendid Shangzhai Culture. The district is also Beijing's first district to be accredited as a "National Forest City" of China, and one of Beijing's ecological conservation areas, with a forest coverage rate of 67.3 percent.

Pinggu focuses on the development of agriculture, and is referred to as the "Hometown of Peaches" in China for possessing the largest peach orchard in the world. The "Pinggu Peaches", "Beizhai Red Apricots", and "Fojianxi Pears" from Maoshanhou Village have been approved as "National Geographical Indication Protected Products". The walnut production system of Sizuo Lou has been included in the list of "China's Important Agricultural Cultural Heritage".