Kiwi fruit has been a species growing in China since ancient times. It was recorded in the "Book of Songs" more than a thousand years ago. Kiwi fruit also appeared as a medicine in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" compiled by Li Shizhen. Kiwi fruit mainly grows in the Yangtze River Basin of China. The climate is mild and the water is sufficient, which is suitable for the growth of fruits. However, kiwi tastes slightly sour in the early stages of growth and is not easy to store after it is fully mature. Therefore, even though kiwi fruit is nutritious and delicious, it is only in a wild state and has not been commercially grown.

At the beginning of the last century, many types of wild kiwi grew around Yichang, an inner port city on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China. Although some vendors have picked kiwi fruits to sell, few people have discovered this treasure fruit. Until Fraser, a principal from New Zealand, discovered kiwi fruit. She liked the sour and sweet taste very much, so she collected many varieties of kiwi fruit and brought them back to New Zealand. Fraser lives in the North Island of New Zealand. The climate conditions in the North Island of New Zealand are the same as those in the Yangtze River Basin, which is very suitable for growing kiwi fruit. Therefore, growing kiwi fruit is becoming more common in New Zealand, and New Zealand experts have also developed new varieties.

Although the cultivation of kiwi fruit was popularized in New Zealand, kiwi fruit still belongs to China, so before 1950, kiwi fruit was always called "Chinese gooseberry". Although New Zealanders like to eat kiwi fruit, after all, New Zealand is a vast and sparsely populated country. The local production of kiwi fruit far exceeds demand, so fruit farmers are eager to export kiwi fruit. However, due to the name of kiwi fruit? Chinese gooseberry? As a result, everyone believed that kiwis bought in China were authentic, so New Zealanders decided to change the name of kiwis to make kiwis a national product.

New Zealanders have trouble renaming their kiwi fruit. They don’t know how to change the name so that it sounds like a New Zealand brand. The kiwi is the national bird of New Zealand. The kiwi has brown-yellow down similar to that of the kiwi. Therefore, the kiwi was renamed kiwifruit in 1959. In this way, when everyone hears the name kiwi, they will think it is a New Zealand fruit. Since then, New Zealand's kiwifruit industry has grown bigger and bigger, greatly boosting local economic development.