Pinghe banana has the characteristics of thin skin, fragrant taste, soft meat, sweet texture, coreless, and excellent flavor and nutrition. Each hundred grams of banana pulp contains 486 joules of calories, 20 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of protein, and 20 mg of vitamin C. It also contains phosphorus, calcium, iron and other nutrients and vitamins. Among them, the carbohydrate and protein contents are higher than those of oranges, mangoes, pineapples and papayas. The pulp can moisten the lungs and smooth the intestines. It is a natural health-care fruit. Pinghe Banana registered the "Banzi" brand trademark with the National Trademark Office in 1992, and obtained the "green food" certification in 1995, becoming the first banana product in China to obtain registration and the right to use "green food". In 1998, it was recognized as a well-known trademark by the Zhangzhou Municipal People's Government.

The cultivation of bananas in Pinghe can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. As evidenced by the poem "Twelve Rhymes of Gui Xian Poems" written by Zhangzhou Biejia Dingru in the Tang Dynasty, "Pananas are golden and moist, longan and jade produce fluid". Bananas are commonly grown. It also has a history of more than 700 years. However, large-scale production truly took shape in the 1980s. In the early 1980s, farmers from the Huang_ and Nanshan Village Groups of Baonan Village, Banzai Town, the birthplace of the great writer Lin Yutang, first changed the paddy fields planted with rice to bananas, and used bananas as the main source of economic income. The highest price of bananas per kilogram is 7.1 yuan, and the economic benefits of bananas per mu are several times that of rice. The good economic benefits prompted farmers in Banzai Town to start a craze for large-scale banana planting. By the end of the 1980s, almost all the fields and hills in Banzai Town were planted with bananas, with a total area of ??more than 40,000 acres. At the same time, the largest Banzi banana wholesale professional market in our province will be established. Banana planting in Pinghe County developed rapidly in the 1990s. Today, the county has planted 75,000 acres with an annual output of 173,000 tons, ranking among the top in Fujian Province. It has become one of the most important banana production bases in my country and has been awarded the title of "China's Banana Hometown". The unique and excellent quality of Pinghe bananas comes from unique natural conditions, cultivation techniques and excellent varieties.

Pinghe County is one of the “first batch of demonstration counties in the country to create pollution-free agricultural products (fruits)”, “Fujian Province’s pollution-free production demonstration base”, and “the national south subtropical famous banana production base”, with suitable high-quality Good natural conditions for banana production. Pinghe bananas are improved varieties cultivated through continuous purification, rejuvenation and selection, and have good biological characteristics. At the same time, not only are the cultivation techniques of “early planting, strong seedlings, heavy fertilizers, deep ditches, and rapid ripening” and “cross tips” summarized by banana farmers in long-term practice, but also scientific and technological workers who have the same experience as banana farmers. The first "New Banana Planting Cultivation Technology" that won the second prize of the Ministry of Agriculture's Harvest Plan has enabled Pinghe bananas to have higher yields, good appearance, and supreme quality. After inspecting Pinghe Banzai, Taiwanese banana experts believe that Banzai's banana planting management level and product quality are the best among Southeast Asian countries. Pinghe bananas are famous at home and abroad for their unique flavor and superior quality. The products are not only sold well across the country, but also exported to Japan, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions.