Liaocheng City is located in the west of Shandong Province, 420 kilometers away from Beijing. It is an important production base for vegetables, fruits, edible fungi, and a deep processing and export base for agricultural and sideline products in China. The total output of fruits and vegetables and the total output of off-season vegetables are now Both rank first in the country. Shen County, under the jurisdiction of Liaocheng, was rated as the “No. 1 Vegetable County in China” by the China Vegetable Circulation Association in 2012. Liaocheng's vegetable cultivation focuses on developing in parallel with livestock and poultry breeding. It has a solid foundation for circular agriculture, high soil fertility, and good fruit and vegetable quality. In addition, it is close to Beijing. Vegetables can be picked from the fields and arrive at wholesale markets such as Beijing's Xinfadi in as little as five hours. , so it has always been an important vegetable supply base in the capital. Party and state leaders attach great importance to the agricultural development of Liaocheng and have visited Liaocheng for field inspections many times.

Liaocheng has a vegetable area of ??3.5 million acres, and there are many vegetables, including 30 million square meters of edible fungi cultivation, and the total output of melon and vegetable fungi has reached 13.9 million tons. The varieties of vegetables grown within the territory are divided into 11 categories, including solanaceous fruits, root vegetables, yams, melons, beans, onions and garlic, cabbage, cabbage, edible fungi, aquatic species, and green leaves, with 77 species and 812 varieties. varieties. The counties (cities and districts) under the jurisdiction of Liaocheng have been recognized as "China's No. 1 Vegetable County", "National Ecological Demonstration Zone", "Vegetable Base for Hong Kong", "China's Hometown of Agaricus bisporus", "China's Hometown of Cantaloupe", "Famous Green Vegetable Gardens Along the Beijing-Kowloon Line", "National Agricultural Products Export Safety Demonstration County", "National No. 1 Cantaloupe Production County", "Hometown of Cucumbers in Jiangbei", "Ganoderma Industrialized Production Base", "Western Shandong Garlic Production Base" , "Shanghai World Expo Agricultural Products Direct Supply Base" and other titles.

Liaocheng City is not only one of the top regions in the country for fruit and vegetable output, quality and safety, but also the first region in the country to implement a traceability system for large-scale bases, which is unmatched by any other city in the country.