Did you know that lychee cultivation has a history of over a thousand years in Maoming? The city boasts four ancient lychee gardens with many thousand-year-old trees. It still preserves more than 350 thousand-year-old, over 1000 five-hundred-year-old,  and 19400 hundred-year-old lychee trees.

Maoming is also the world's largest lychee production base, with a cultivation area of approximately 1.39 million acres and an annual output of over 500,000 tons, accounting for about 1/2 of Guangdong, 1/4 of the country and 1/5 of the world, and its development has a direct impact on local agriculture and even national lychee production.

Thanks to rigorous efforts in industry, market, technology, and culture, the lychee industry in Maoming has seen high-quality development, and the output value of the entire industrial chain has exceeded 10 billion yuan.

在茂名，荔枝种植已有千年历史。荔枝四大古荔园现还保存有不少千年古荔树。目前，茂名全市千年以上荔枝树超过350株，五百年以上的超过1000株，百年以上的达19400株。

茂名还是世界最大的荔枝生产基地，种植面积约139万亩，年产量超50万吨，约占广东的1/2，全国的1/4，全世界的1/5。茂名荔枝产业兴衰将直接影响当地农业发展，甚至影响广东以至全国荔枝生产。

近年来，茂名通过打好产业、市场、科技、文化这“四张牌”，促进荔枝产业高质量发展，全产业链实现产值超百亿元。