Lychees are a popular fruit in Asian cuisine, often used in desserts.
椰子在亚洲烹饪中是一种受欢迎的水果，常用于甜点。
I love the refreshing taste of
lychee in my bubble tea.
我喜欢在珍珠奶茶中加入荔枝那种清新的味道。
Lychee has a unique, sweet flavor that is hard to describe.
荔枝有一种独特且甜蜜的风味，难以用言语形容。
The
lychee tree can grow up to 50 feet tall, producing delicious fruit.
荔枝树可以长到50英尺高，结出美味的果实。
In Chinese culture,
lychee symbolizes unity and togetherness.
在中国文化中，荔枝象征着团结和和睦。
Dried
lychees make a tasty snack and are also used in traditional medicine.
干荔枝是一种美味的小吃，也常用于传统医药。
You can find fresh
lychees in grocery stores during their peak season from May to July.
在5月到7月的旺季，你可以在超市找到新鲜的荔枝。
Lychee juice is a popular beverage in tropical regions, offering a hydrating refreshment.
荔枝汁在热带地区是一种受欢迎的饮品，提供解渴的清爽感。
Be careful when eating
lychees, as the seeds can be harmful if swallowed whole.
吃荔枝时要小心，整颗吞下种子可能会有害。
The
lychee fruit has a delicate, pinkish-red skin that easily peels away to reveal juicy flesh.
荔枝的果皮娇嫩，呈粉红色，很容易剥开，露出多汁的果肉。
Zhanjiang has become a major lychee cultivation area in China.
湛江已成为中国荔枝主产区。
SF said for the lychee season this year, the company has put into operation an additional 120 cold-chain vehicles, as well as over 800 delivery points that are conveniently located for consumers in urban and rural areas.
顺丰表示，今年荔枝季，该公司已新增120辆冷链车投入运营，并为城市和农村地区的消费者提供了800多个方便的配送点。
Costa Coffee launched the low-sugar and low-fat light milk tea in March this year with three different flavors: grape jasmine, lychee black and peach oolong.
Costa Coffee在今年3月推出了低糖低脂的淡奶茶，有三种不同的口味：葡萄茉莉、荔枝黑和桃乌龙。
Today, the audio landscape is filled with platforms like Lychee FM and Dragonfly FM, with internet companies such as Tencent and ByteDance also flocking to the market.
如今，音频领域充斥着荔枝FM和蜻蜓FM等平台，腾讯和字节跳动等互联网公司也纷纷涌入市场。
A variety of lychee from China's southern Hainan province and a type of peach from western Xinjiang were ranked top on the list.
Zengcheng district in Guangdong province recently exported 960 kilograms of lychee to the Netherlands after the batch passed on-site quarantine requirements at the local Customs office.
In fact, exports of lychee from Guangdong, a major production base of the traditional agricultural product, have increased sharply in the second quarter of the year, usually a peak time for sales, according to local Customs data.
"Exports of lychee have high requirements for storage conditions, Customs clearance time and logistics transportation as the fruit is prone to browning when stored at room temperature for 24 hours in summer," said Zhou Xichuan, general manager of Guangzhou Anhe Agricultural Development Co. To make the process more efficient, local Customs opened a green channel for shipping of the small, rounded fruit, and provided 24-hour Customs clearance services.
"Opening the green channel not only helps save time for preservation of lychee, but also helps us get more orders from international customers," said Zhou.
Exports of lychee from the province grew 66.7 percent year-on-year to 7,014 metric tons from April to June, with their value also increasing by 47.9 percent year-on-year to 139 million yuan ($19.45 million), according to data from the Guangdong Sub-administration of the General Administration of Customs.
The export volume of lychee from the province in South China currently accounts for 62.6 percent of the country's total, according to the local Customs.
Guangdong's production of lychee has reached 1.6 million tons so far this year, with total sales of 16 billion yuan.
Currently, lychee produced in Guangdong is exported to more than 20 countries and regions.
Under a digital logistics system for lychee exports set by leading Chinese courier SF Express, which covers 28 countries and regions, the fruit can reach Kenya two days after being sent from Guangzhou in Guangdong.
The company's exports of lychee touched 4,300 tons this year, with exports to countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership bloc doubling, according to Chen.
The company, set up in 2019, has established a complete industrial chain that integrates research and development of seeds, planting, processing and preservation, and cold chain warehousing for lychee.
"Keeping the freshness of lychee on shelves is still the focus in exports as it takes some time for the agricultural product to be exported and sold in the market," Chen said.
Recently, Gree Electric Appliances, a Chinese home appliances manufacturer, launched a mobile appliance that keeps lychee fresh, helping to effectively extend the preservation period of the traditional fruit.
The appliance, with an effective internal volume of 20 cubic meters for storage of 5 tons of lychee, helps retain the freshness of the agricultural product for more than a month.
Local Customs officers have visited local farmers and companies to instruct them on quarantine and technical training, as well as introducing new preservation technologies for the export of lychee.
"The Customs have guided us to introduce new cold chain technologies, helping extend the storage period of lychee to 30-40 days to ensure freshness for foreign customers," said Lu Yajin, head of Liangdong Risheng Lychee Cooperative in Lianjiang of Zhanjiang, Guangdong.
In the first half of this year, exports of lychee from Zhanjiang, also a major growing base of lychee in Guangdong, reached 4,490.4 tons, a year-on-year increase of 63.6 percent, according to the local Customs.
The appliance, with an effective internal volume of 20 cubic meters for storage that can hold 5 metric tons of lychees, has been applied for pre-cooling and storage in orchards, distribution centers and rural cooperatives in the lychee industry.
In a lychee orchard in Maoming, Guangdong province, on Monday afternoon, He Jinbao climbed a tree and, dripping with sweat, picked the fruit, which is ready for harvest.
"I followed my father in cultivating lychee trees since my childhood," said He, 60, a farmer from Boqiao village in Maoming's Genzi township.
With a few bouquets of fresh lychee in hand, He noted that sales had increased significantly in recent years, thanks to diverse sales channels — especially livestreaming e-commerce.
"Also, the lychee are very sweet this year, as there was adequate rain and sunshine," he said.
"The lychee orchard in Boqiao — known as a living lychee museum, with a planting area of more than 200 hectares — has 39 ancient lychee trees, each more than 500 years old.
Upgraded sales channels, the introduction of refrigeration to keep the fruit fresh and planting more species have helped boost the market for lychee from Maoming, according to He Xia, Party chief of Boqiao.
In e-commerce alone, sales of lychee from Maoming reached 2.16 billion yuan ($302.3 million) in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 19.2 percent, according to the local government.
Lychee fruit from Maoming has also been shipped overseas and has a presence in more than 20 countries and regions in Europe, North America and Southeast Asia.
Maoming is the largest lychee production base in Guangdong, with a planting area of nearly 93,000 hectares and an annual output of nearly 600,000 metric tons, accounting for about one-fourth of the country's total.
To upgrade the lychee industry, a raw pulp processing plant, established by Chinese herbal tea maker Guangzhou Wanglaoji Great Health Industry Corp, started up in May last year, generating revenues of around 400 million yuan.
The fresh-keeping appliance, with an effective internal volume of 20 cubic meters for storage which can hold five tons of lychees, is applied for pre-cooling and storage in orchards, distribution centers and rural cooperatives in the lychee industry, according to the company.
The first of such an appliance was launched in early June and put into use at an orchard in Maoming, Guangdong, a traditional production and trade base of lychee.
To cater for the lychee season in Maoming, Guangdong province, parcel delivery companies have extended the collection to the fields and improved packaging to increase the product's quality.
为了应对广东茂名地区的荔枝季节，快递公司已经将揽收服务扩展到了田间地头，并且改进了包装方式以提高产品的质量。
Exports of lychee, longan and related fruits from Lingnan, a geographic area referring to lands in the south of China's "Five Ranges"－Tayu, Qitian, Dupang, Mengzhu, Yuecheng－have been growing steadily since the fruits entered the harvesting period in April, Guangdong Customs officials said.
Customs departments in Shenzhen, Guangdong province alone had completed inspection and quarantine of more than 2,115 metric tons of lychee fruits as of the end of May, up by 5.6 percent year-on-year.
And Customs in Maoming in the western part of Guangdong has also completed inspection and quarantine of a total of 95 batches of lychee for export last month.
The exported lychee weighed a total of 1,279 tons, with a value of 30.7 million yuan ($4.6 million), and has been shipped to the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, the Netherlands, Canada and other countries and regions.
Maoming is a major lychee production base.
The city's lychee output is expected to reach more than 547,700 tons, accounting for about 43 percent of the province's total this year.
Wang Xiaohui, vice-mayor of Maoming, said the lychee industry has now become an important industry for the rural revitalization in the city and it has also become a fruit that is helping local farmers become rich.
Liu Guodong, head of the inspection and quarantine division of Guangdong Customs, said lychee, longan, pineapple and other tropical fruits usually have a short shelf life and require timeliness in Customs clearance.
As of the end of May, Guangdong had a total of 159 registered export orchards and 69 packaging plants, including 79 lychee orchards and 42 lychee packaging plants.
Liu said Customs departments in Guangdong province, a major production base of lychee and longan, completed the inspection and quarantine of 19,900 tons of fresh lychee for export valued at 390 million yuan last year, which were mostly sold to the United States, Canada, Europe and Southeast Asian nations.
Guangdong lychee could be seen in many major supermarkets in California, with prices ranging from $4.99 to $5.99 a pound (0.45 kilogram) last year.
Insiders expect Guangdong to be able to sell about 20,000 tons of lychee abroad this year.
On May 25, the Customs department in Maoming issued Guangdong Zefengyuan Agricultural Co Ltd the first RCEP certificate of origin for a batch of fresh lychee valued at 64,500 yuan to be exported to Singapore, and the batch of lychee enjoyed zero tariffs in the Southeast Asian nation.
As of late May, Maoming alone had sold 42 batches of lychee weighing 537 tons valued at 11.61 million yuan to other RCEP member nations this year.
Guangdong has a lychee planting area of 2,633.27 square kilometers and is estimated to reach a lychee output of 1.27 million tons while the province's longan planting area comes to 1,248 sq km, with an estimated output of 886,700 tons, in 2022.
Both lychee and longan outputs of Guangdong annually represent more than 50 percent of the country's total.
She runs a family orchard in Lingshan county, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, the home of the Chinese lychee.
As the lychee season ends, Gan's family are busy packing and dispatching dried lychees, while Gan types quickly on her cellphone, receiving orders and interacting with her followers.
The total lychee yield in the county reached 165,000 tons this year, and 12,300 tons were sold online, with about 350 tons sold through Gan's social media account.
NANNING — Amidst the undulating hills of Qinzhou in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, lychee farmer Huang Xinghen is busy picking, screening and packing the pinkish-red, walnut-sized fruits.
Behind the recent bumper harvest is the local success in promoting agricultural technologies, such as the use of LED (light-emitting diode) light to disinfect lychee trees and the development of high-yield varieties, said Liang Jihao, deputy head of the department.