{"id":22176,"date":"2025-04-04T13:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=22176"},"modified":"2025-04-04T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:30:20","slug":"the-vietnam-lychee-prepares-china-expansion-via-hekou-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/04\/04\/the-vietnam-lychee-prepares-china-expansion-via-hekou-port\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vietnam lychee prepares China expansion via Hekou port"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A year after China signed agreements that favored lychee imports from\u00a0Vietnam<\/u><\/a>, the cross-border Hekou port anticipates expansive 2025 trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each early summer, the port receives thousands of tonnes of lychees from Vietnam. Back in May 2024 alone, 6,600 tonnes of the fruit passed via the harbor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With its well-developed rail infrastructure and fast custom clearance, this southwestern China port facilitates expeditious trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helping out is the streamlining of customs by the Sino-Vietnamese border administration, which reduces delays for perishable fruits.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FTA Perks<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The gateway also enjoys the benefit of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA)<\/u><\/a>, which promotes easy trade for lychees.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a spree of agricultural trade agreements<\/u><\/a> in 2024, lychees emerged among 11 tropical fruits from Vietnam that officially enter China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since that time, the Viet lychee has penetrated  beyond the nearby Yunnan Province\u2019s wholesale markets to mega cities like Shanghai. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

World\u2019s Biggest Market<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Popular for its juiciness and sweetness, the red fruit has conquered the world\u2019s biggest lychee producer and consumer market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite being the number one producer, China has such a thirsting for the fruit that it imports from as far as\u00a0Australia<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With such a huge market, analysts expect the 2025 season\u2019s exports by Vietnam  to be high. Preliminary production estimates are already at 165,000 tonnes, up from 87,320 tonnes in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Vietnam\u2019s fruit export body, FOSACHA<\/u><\/a>, 2024 generated 5.775 billion dong ($223,897) in all lychee revenue. Although just 24,785 tonnes out of the year\u2019s output of 97,370 tonnes underwent export, China gobbled up the lion\u2019s share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So long Hekou port as it prepares for a May 2025 onslaught of even a bigger lychee crop than last year\u2019s. And as the data section below shows, Vietnam can manage such an increase because it has upped production in recent decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vietnam Lychee Statistics<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The northern part of Vietnam is, along with mainland China, one of the geographical origin of lychees. Today, the fruit has extended outside the place of origin around Hanoi to other areas due to commercial cultivation. By 2022, the Viet lychee was under export to over 30 nations<\/u><\/a>, with China the top importer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does Vietnam\u2019s lychee production compare with China\u2019s<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vietnam is among the leading lychee-producing and-exporting nations but its output is way below global leader, China. For example, in the 1998-99 market year, Vietnam had an output of 27,000 tonnes versus China\u2019s 950,000 tonnes<\/u><\/a>. Vietnam\u2019s lychees are popular in China, however, due to their taste and organic quality. The organic aspect gains from rising VietGAP-certified cultivation at 16,000 hectares<\/u><\/a> or roughly half of the 2025 acreage.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the historical growth rate of Vietnam\u2019s lychee industry<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vietnam lychee sector grew slowly in the 1980s but between 1992 and 1998 it expanded rapidly. By 1998, the cultivated area had risen to 25,000 hectares while production had upped to 27,000 tonnes.<\/u><\/a> This according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In 2024, acreage hit 29,700 hectares while production attained 97,320 tonnes, per the export agency FOSACHA.  The agency\u2019s predictions for 2025 is that production would reach 165,000 tonnes<\/u><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which lychee varieties grow in Vietnam<\/strong>?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanoi and Ha Tay regions boast truly local cultivars such as Trang Cat and Yang Anh<\/u><\/a> cultivars. Most lychee-growing provinces on the other hand grow Thiew Thanh Ha and Phu Ho as the main cultivars. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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