Yantai is well-known for its wide varieties of fruit, and gets the name "hometown of fruit". As one of the key fruit export bases in the north of China, Yantai is abundant in apples, Laiyang pears, long-stem pears, grapes, hawthorns, cherries, and Chinese chestnuts. The area of the orchard of the whole city has reaches 213,000 hectares, among which the area for high-quality apples represented by Red Fuji accounts for 186,700 hectares. Yantai is noted as the biggest production base of Red Fuji. The output of apples in Yantai occupies 1/4 of the total of China, which make Yantai stand as the biggest apple-planting area.