Nantong agricultural businesses showcase products in Shanghai from Sept 21 to 24. [Photo/Nantong Daily]

Forty agricultural businesses in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province, showcased more than 500 homegrown agricultural products at a trade fair in Shanghai from Sept 21 to 24, local media outlets reported.

Nantong businesses showcased geographical indication-marked products such as Hai'an rice, Rudong Langshan chickens, and Haimen mutton, time-honored foods such as rice cakes and Xinzhong fermented bean curd, as well as longevity foods including air-dried Rugao turnip peel and fish meat balls with crab roe.

A senior Shanghai resident shows off the Nantong-produced products he bought at the trade fair. [Photo/Nantong Daily]

With its unique natural environment, Nantong produces food that is helpful to maintain good health and prolong life. Shanghai residents were particularly interested in the city's longevity food and organic vegetables.

Over the 3.5 days of the trade fair, Nantong businesses sold products worth about 386,000 yuan ($52,891) and some of them inked intention agreements worth nearly 100 million yuan with Shanghai enterprises.

Nantong currently is home to 15 vegetable bases exclusively for Shanghai with a combined area of more than 40,000 mu (2,666.67 hectares) and daily supply of 5,000 metric tons to Shanghai. Fifty percent of the agricultural businesses in the city do business with Shanghai and in 2022, the sales revenue of Nantong-produced agricultural products in Shanghai exceeded 20 billion yuan ($2.74 billion).