Fujiabian Hills

Overview

The Fujiabian Hills are the hilly land around Fujiabian in Honglan Subdistrict, Lishui District. The district government's administrative divisions page records that Honglan Subdistrict has a residents' committee named Fujiabian, written there in abbreviated form, and the hills described in this entry take that place name as their extent.

Elevation and basin: no official document gives the elevation or the basin of these hills, so the entry declares elevation_m in gaps and records the basin as undetermined. The district government's geographical position page and its two contingency plans give district-wide figures only, namely low hills at 72.5 per cent of the district and a highest elevation of 368.5 m, and none of them names the Fujiabian area; this site does not infer from them.

The attraction: the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism's list of national graded tourist attractions in Nanjing, current to August 2026, records the Fujiabian Agricultural Science and Technology Sightseeing Park as a AAA-rated tourist attraction, at the Fujiabian Agricultural Science and Technology Park in Honglan Subdistrict, on the grading notice announced by the National Tourist Attraction Quality Grade Assessment Committee as Announcement No. 1 of 2006. The list gives the grade and the notice number but not the date of assessment, so the entry records 2006 as the year of the notice. The park's name follows the list.

Formation and change

The Fujiabian area lies in the Ningzhenyang hill country. The district's land spatial plan near-term implementation plan records that Lishui falls from south-east to north-west, that low hills cover 72.5 per cent of the district, and that the landform of hills, ridges, slopes and valley floors interlocks in three steps; Honglan Subdistrict lies south of the district seat, and the hills around Fujiabian belong to that setting.

No first-tier source has been found for the age, rock, soil type or structural setting of these hills, so nothing is written here; nor has any source been found on their change through small-watershed management or the return of farmland to forest.

Landscape and visiting

The Fujiabian Agricultural Science and Technology Sightseeing Park is a AAA-rated tourist attraction, on a grading notice of 2006, and its plum garden and strawberry bases are the main sights.

China Nanjing International Plum Blossom Festival: the festival is organised by the Nanjing Municipal People's Government, was first held in 1996, and in 2024 was in its twenty-ninth edition; it ran from 19 February to 15 March 2024, with Plum Blossom Mountain as its main venue and Xuanwu Lake Park and Fujiabian in Lishui as sub-venues (Nanjing Municipal People's Government website, 19 February 2024; Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism website, 19 February 2024). This entry records only the sub-venue arrangement of that edition; the arrangement in 2025 and later years must be checked year by year.

Lishui Plum Blossom Season: on 21 February 2026 the 2026 Lishui Plum Blossom Season opened at Fujiabian in Honglan Subdistrict, with a plum market and the lighting of the ten-li plum grove at night; more than seventy stalls were set up on the opening day and about sixty thousand visitors entered the grounds (Lishui District People's Government website, publicity office of Honglan Subdistrict, 24 February 2026). Those figures are for the opening day and must not be written as figures for the whole season.

Strawberries: on 23 February 2025 a strawberry promotion event for 2025 opened at the plaza of the Fujiabian strawberry garden (Lishui District People's Government website, Lishui District Media Centre, 21 February 2025).

In its 2025 work reply the district culture and tourism bureau listed the Sweet Picking Route, centred on Fujiabian and Shitouzhai, among seven fine holiday routes through the beautiful countryside (Lishui District People's Government, 1 December 2025); that document gives only the route name and its core attractions, not the start and finish or the distance.

No first-tier source has been found for walking routes, viewing facilities, tickets or opening times in the Fujiabian Hills, so no visiting detail is given; readers who need it should go to the district culture and tourism department, the Honglan Subdistrict authorities and the park. Opening information is current to September 2026.

Open questions

• Elevation gap: no official document gives the elevation of the Fujiabian Hills; the district government's geographical position page and its two contingency plans give district-wide figures only and do not name the Fujiabian area. The entry declares elevation_m in gaps and fills in no guessed value.
• Basin undetermined: no official document names the basin of these hills, so the entry records it as undetermined rather than inferring one.
• The name is this site's own description: Fujiabian Hills is this site's wording for the hilly land around Fujiabian, not an officially established mountain name; no official document establishes that name, and the entry records Honglan Subdistrict only.
• Park name: the list records the name as the Fujiabian Agricultural Science and Technology Sightseeing Park; the forms used on the park's own website are its own account, and the entry follows the list.
• Event names kept apart: the China Nanjing International Plum Blossom Festival, which has a sub-venue at Fujiabian, and the district's own Lishui Plum Blossom Season are not the same event name, and the 2025 Lishui strawberry promotion event is not the same name as a strawberry culture festival. None may stand in for another, and no edition number may be inferred from them.
• Year of the grade: the AAA rating is taken from the notice number, Announcement No. 1 of 2006 of the National Tourist Attraction Quality Grade Assessment Committee, as the list gives no date of assessment; the text must say that the year is taken from the notice.
• Experience and visitor figures: the stall and visitor figures for the opening day of the 2026 plum season come from a news release by the subdistrict publicity office, not a published document, and stand as a one-day figure only, not as a year-round figure.