Where are the specialties of Xihe and Pinellia?

Xihe Pinellia ternata is a geographical indication protection product.

Xihe County, Longnan City, Gansu Province, the hometown of Pinellia ternata in China, is known as the Millennium Medicine Town. Xihe County planted Pinellia ternata, Pinellia ternata and Pinellia ternata seeds all the year round, developed Pinellia ternata planting, and established Pinellia ternata Association and Pinellia ternata Cooperative.

Xihe County, Longnan City, Gansu Province has been known as the hometown of medicine for thousands of years. The organizing committee for the publicity and promotion activities of China's hometown of specialties was awarded certificates and plaques by the Ministry of Agriculture of China, and Xihe County was officially named as the hometown of Pinellia ternata in China.

Xihe county, Gansu province has a humid climate and abundant sunshine, with an average temperature of 8.4℃, frost-free period 149 ~ 2 14 days, sunshine hours 1500 ~ 1800 hours, and annual precipitation of 45 1 ~ 734.7 ml. Pinellia ternata is one of the important medicinal cultivated plants in Xihe County. Pinellia ternata produced in Xihe County is known as the best of Pinellia ternata because of its large particles, good shape, white color and sufficient sex.

Pinellia ternata is an important medicinal material in the treasure house of Chinese traditional medicine, which is only produced in China and Japan in Asia. Location: Gansu, Sichuan, Hubei and Shanxi. Longnan and Xihe in Gansu have the best quality.

The scope of protection of geographical indication products in Xihe and Banxia is subject to the scope proposed in the Request for Instructions on Delineating the Protection Scope of Geographical Indication Products in Xihe County, Gansu Province (Bao [2007] 17), including Changdao Town, Shibao Township, Xiang, Suhe Township, Xiyu Township, Hanyuan Town, Xinglong Township, Liuhe Township, Shili Township and Hexiang Township in Xihe County, Gansu Province.