In late fall, located in Beijing Huairou District, Bohai Town, Ming and Qing Dynasty ancient chestnut garden, a hundred years old chestnut trees are still erect and verdant, from time to time fall chestnut fruit, tell the joy of harvest.

Founded in 2008, Beijing old chestnut tree Juyuande planting professional cooperatives, Li Sipeng, head of the introduction, through the selection of chestnut varieties, to carry out standardized planting, the park's chestnut mu yield from the original 85 kilograms to 200 kilograms or so, the cooperative contracted farmers and registered members of the development of the initial 13 people to 830 people. Cooperative set up chestnut price protection mechanism, through a clear standard to achieve high quality and excellent price, excellent seed price, 3 years extra cumulative total to drive farmers to increase income of more than 10 million yuan, so that the chestnut industry has become a regional rural revitalization “booster”.

Huairou District, as the national geographical indications of chestnut production areas, access to “China's chestnut township” and other titles. Chestnut trees have been planted in 217,000 mu, accounting for about 60% of the region's fruit tree area. Existing more than a century of live chestnut trees nearly 47,000, of which more than 500 years above the Ming Dynasty chestnut tree more than 400. Farmers engaged in chestnut production in the region are about 24,000 households and 72,000 people.

In recent years, the capital gardening and landscaping continue to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional green industry, the scientific and technological achievements into productivity, and promote the implementation of the application of high-quality varieties of chestnut and supporting the demonstration and promotion of efficient and high-quality cultivation of new technology. Beijing Municipal Landscape Architecture and Greening Bureau of Science and Technology Director Jiang Yingshu introduction, since 2023, the organization of the Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences and other institutions and the old chestnut cooperatives to carry out cooperation between industry, academia and research in the cooperatives and neighboring farmers to promote the planting of early fruit yielding type “Huaixiang”, short male inflorescences resistant to barrenness “Black Cottage No. 7 ”, yielding and resistant “Yan Xi” and other high-quality yielding strains. At the same time, according to the excellent varieties, excellent trait characteristics, the development of supporting cultivation technology system. Cultivation of fine varieties to improve the yield and quality of chestnut, but also enrich the chestnut garden landscape, lengthen the shelf life, drive tourism picking consumption.