According to data from Maoming Customs, the value of exported lychees in Maoming has reached 11.93 million yuan ($1.7 million) by July 10, up by more than 80 percent from the same period of the previous year.
On July 9, Boqiao village in Gaozhou, a county-level city in Maoming, was included on a Ministry of Culture and Tourism list of the second batch of national key rural tourism villages.
Maoming and Zhanjiang in Guangdong province, which are within the jurisdiction of the customs, have exported a total of 1,856.8 metric tons of lychees by July 4, a year-on-year increase of 64.8 percent.
A longan production and marketing conference was held in Gaozhou, a county-level city in Maoming, on June 29, attracting 65 purchasers from all over the county.
A batch of wampees produced in Maoming was recently exported to Canada by air after passing the inspection and quarantine of Maoming Customs. It is the first time that Maoming's wampees have been exported overseas.
Maoming in South China's Guangdong province saw about 660,400 passenger trips during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday that ended on June 27.