2/kloc-0 At the beginning of the century, Chengou Township actively popularized hawthorn management technology. Through rejuvenation of old trees, deep planing of trees, peeling of white paint, fattening and pruning, pest control, and scientific methods such as seed selection, seedling raising, transplanting, grafting and replanting, high-yield, high-quality and efficient agriculture will be implemented, so that the whole township can produce 2.5 million Jin of fruit every year.

Planting hawthorn can promote soil and water conservation, protect the ecological environment and improve economic benefits. Zezhou County, Jincheng City is one of the eight hawthorn production bases in China. 1989 The county's output was 3.5 million kilograms, ten times higher than that in the early days of the founding of New China. Through the establishment of hawthorn base, Jincheng developed hawthorn orchard 172 10000 mu, planted15.28 million plants, with an annual output of 7.2 million kilograms. The development prospect is very broad. Jincheng City, Shanxi Province held the first Red Fruit Festival on1October 22 1992, and exhibited a series of red fruit products. In three days, the transaction was 65 million yuan and the introduced capital was 58 million yuan. Dr. Foster, director of the Fruit Tree Research Office of the Agricultural Technology Center of the United States Department of Agriculture and a world-famous expert in fruit tree gardening, and his party visited the production of hawthorn series in Jincheng and Jiangxian, Shanxi Province, and thought that red fruits were treasures. Fruit contains many vitamins and other nutrients.

Hawthorn fruit tastes slightly sour and sweet, and Jincheng red fruit sells well at home and abroad. Red fruit series products such as hawthorn cake, hawthorn sauce, canned hawthorn apples, hawthorn tea and so on. All of them are loved by the masses, and the candied haws and rock candy cakes sold on the streets of northern cities are snacks that adults and children like. As for the medicinal hawthorn pill, it can not only stimulate the appetite and strengthen the spleen, but also treat dyspepsia, dietary discomfort, abdominal distension, hernia, blood transfusion and amenorrhea. Folk use hawthorn leaves instead of tea leaves, which can cure hypertension.