Apricot trees have been planted in Liugou Village, Jiubao Township, Wanquan County for more than 400 years. The village has developed more than 30 new varieties through the "Sweet Apricot High-quality and High-yield Project", with a planting area of 4,500 mu, and has been recognized as a fruit forest science and technology demonstration park by the Forestry Department of Hebei Province. Nowadays, Liugou apricot industry is developing into an ecological agriculture and leisure agriculture integrating sightseeing, traveling and picking.
In recent years, with the support of the village helping units, Jiubao Township has improved the quality of fruit by grafting 100 mu of fresh apricots, and promoted it as a breakthrough point in the township, increasing economic benefits by more than 600,000 yuan every year. While expanding the scale of apricot planting centered on Liugou, the township actively develops diversified mixed fruit forest planting. The apricot planting area in the township is more than 4000 mu, 5 mu of wine grapes in special microclimate area, and Hanfu apple 100 mu. The township also applied for the registration of fruit trademarks such as "Liugou Apricot", which further expanded its popularity and improved its market economic value. Through the development of sightseeing tourism with the theme of garden picking, flower sightseeing and leisure and entertainment, eco-tourism has been developed.