Bearing fruit from outsourcing's third wave

Yichang, Hubei province, has a special place in New Zealand's horticultural history.

It was from that city in 1904 that teacher Mary Isabel Fraser brought home seeds of what was then known as the Chinese or Ichang gooseberry, a fuzzy fruit found in the wild in China at the time.

New Zealanders were clever enough not only to grow it in industrial scale but even give it a highly marketable name, kiwifruit.