Pinggu peach garden [Photo via tuchong.com]

Pinggu District, located in the northeast of Beijing, covering 948.24 square kilometers, the district administrates two streets, 16 towns and 273 villages. The district's permanent population is 456,000.

Pinggu District enjoys a 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 on this land. Nearly 6,700 years away from today, Pinggu ancestors created a brilliant and splendid Shangzhai Culture. It is the first national forest urban area of Beijing, and one of Beijing's ecological conservation areas, with the forest coverage rate of 67.3 percent.

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