The 27th session of the China Silk Road Turfan Grape Festival was recently opened in an official ceremony. Turfan is one of China's major grape production areas and accounts for 52.84% of the overall grape production volume in China. Turfan grows more than 550 grape varieties. Seedless white grapes alone already have more than 20 varieties.
Turfan grapes on display with more than 220 varieties for visitors to sample
Opening ceremony
The Turfan basin is dry and rain is scarce. The area enjoys an annual average of 3200 hours of sunshine. This is 700 hours more than the northern border of Xinjiang. These unique and suitable natural conditions greatly benefit the grape industry in Turfan, which has become known for its excellent grape varieties with Brix levels of as much as 22%-24%. They are praised as "the sweetest grapes in the world".
Huozhou Black Jade grapes
The surface area devoted to grape production in Turfan City reached 36,800 hectares with an annual production volume of 996 thousand tons. The surface area devoted to seedless white grapes is the largest.
Source: ts.cn