Navel oranges on the slopes above the Qutang water
Fengjie lost a town and a great deal of ground to the reservoir. What grows on the slopes above the water is now a geographical indication.
The slopes above the Qutang Gorge in Fengjie County are navel orange ground. Fengjie navel orange carries a Chinese geographical indication, the county claims first place in China for yield per unit of land, and oranges are named among its cash crops beside tobacco, cotton, walnuts and mulberry for silk. The county is 4,098 square kilometres, the second largest in Chongqing, with four subdistricts, eighteen towns, seven townships and four ethnic townships, and 747,300 residents at the end of 2021. It moved 128,000 people for the reservoir, the heaviest resettlement workload of any county in it.
Fengjie lost a town and a great deal of ground to the reservoir. What grows on the slopes above the water is now a geographical indication.