Beijing looking at a bumper grape crop

Yanqing county, under Beijing administration, is a pilot for scientific and technological innovation in grape growing and is celebrating a big harvest, which attracted many pickers recently, even during the hot summer.

Tourist walking beneath a trellis laden with grapes in a greenhouse, in the village of Tangjiabao, Yanqing county, on July 29. [Photo by Li Xin / Xinhua]

The county is known for the quality of its grapes and wine, thanks to some favorable growing conditions, such as the abundant sunlight and well-equipped greenhouses and the greater industrialization of grape growing in recent years for both eating and making wine.

The grapes for eating are grown on a 1,334–hectare piece of land, and the wine grapes on roughly 333.5 hectares with 1,000 greenhouses and an annual yield of more than 6.8 million kilograms.

The county has cultivated top-quality breeds itself and has explored advanced techniques for year-round production, which can cut the costs of greenhouse cultivation.