Lishui Strawberry Festival

Festival overview

The Lishui Strawberry Festival is Lishui's annual strawberry-themed event. Its name varies from year to year, and the wording "Strawberry Festival" does not appear in the sources available: the 2024 event was called the 2024 Nanjing Lishui Strawberry Festival, and the 2025 event was called the 2025 Lishui Strawberry Promotion. This entry uses "Lishui Strawberry Festival" as an umbrella name for this kind of event, and the body sets down each year's actual name as it stood, without substituting one name for the other.

2024: on 18 January the press conference for the 2024 Nanjing Lishui Strawberry Festival was held at the Nanjing Golden Manor strawberry base; the festival opened officially on 1 February under a slogan that plays on the Chinese words for strawberry, for beautiful and for Lishui and is rendered in English as "A Good Life with Strawberries, Meeting in Sweet Lishui", running from January to April (Lishui District People's Government, 19 January 2024).

2025: on 23 February the 2025 Lishui Strawberry Promotion opened at the Fujiabian strawberry grounds and ran into March (Lishui District People's Government website, Lishui District Media Centre, 21 February 2025).

Edition number: none of the sources available gives one, so this entry fills in none and does not work one out from the year.

Past editions

2024 (according to Lishui District People's Government, 19 January 2024) had seven programme items, each with different hosts and organisers, set down item by item:

• Item one: the 2024 Lishui District quality strawberry competition, 19 January, run by the Lishui District Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, awarding a red-strawberry king, a white-strawberry king, special prizes and gold awards.
• Item two: the "A Good Life with Strawberries" Lishui photography competition, January to March, run by the district publicity department, the district agriculture and rural affairs bureau and the district media group.
• Item three: the opening ceremony, on the morning of 1 February at the agricultural science hall of the Fujiabian Agricultural Science and Technology Park, co-hosted by the municipal agriculture and rural affairs bureau and the district government.
• Item four: a market of quality local agricultural produce, on the morning of 1 February at the agricultural science hall of the Fujiabian Agricultural Science and Technology Park, run by the district agriculture and rural affairs bureau.
• Item five: the "Meeting the Good Life with Strawberries" ecology study activity, on the afternoon of 1 February, jointly organised by the district agriculture and rural affairs bureau and the district media group, recruiting fifty parent-and-child families.
• Item six: the "Good Strawberry Life, Run in Beautiful Lishui" Lishui Half Marathon, in March, in the Wuxiang Mountain area; that race has an entry of its own in this library.
• Item seven: a plum-viewing and strawberry-picking rural tour, February to April, at the Fujiabian grounds, Honglan Subdistrict, including plum viewing (night plums), strawberry picking and guesthouse stays.

2025 (according to Lishui District People's Government website, Lishui District Media Centre, 21 February 2025): the site was divided into a main venue area and a games area, with a strawberry-king competition judged by provincial and municipal strawberry experts and a segment in which new farmers told their stories; the district agriculture and rural affairs bureau released a new leisure agriculture route at the event; a special parent-and-child study activity at the Fujiabian strawberry base was held on 23 February, recruiting thirty-five parent-and-child families; the promotion offered a gift voucher exchangeable for a strawberry keyring to those spending fifty yuan or more at the Fujiabian strawberry base, limited to the first three hundred, from 28 February to 28 March; during the event international strawberry figures gathered at Golden Manor for observation, exchange and academic discussion.

• As to the leisure agriculture route released by the district agriculture and rural affairs bureau, the piece states only the releasing body and the existence of the route; it gives no name, start or finish or distance, and this entry adds none.
• The times of the activities are the arrangements of 2024 and 2025 and change from year to year.

Practical information

• Venues: the Fujiabian Agricultural Science and Technology Park, the Fujiabian strawberry grounds and the Nanjing Golden Manor strawberry base, among others, varying from year to year.
• Month: in 2024 the event ran from January to April; in 2025 it ran from late February to March. The exact arrangements change from year to year.
• How it is organised: the seven items had different hosts and organisers, and are not uniformly written as hosted by the district government; this entry sets them down item by item and does not merge them.
• Information date: this entry was checked to September 2026; before travelling, readers should go to the official notices of the district agriculture department, the district culture and tourism department and the event organisers.