Qijiang papaya is a specialty of Qijiang District, Chongqing. Qijiang papaya has thin skin, thick flesh, tender texture, fragrant aroma, sweet and sour taste, and excellent quality. It is a papaya with dual uses as food and medicine. Qijiang Papaya has obtained the National Geographical Indication Certification Trademark.

The world’s papaya is in China, and the Chinese papaya is in Qijiang. As a large agricultural area in Chongqing, Qijiang has been growing papayas for more than a hundred years. Qijiang papaya has thin skin, thick flesh, tender texture, fragrant aroma, sweet and sour taste, and high quality. It is a papaya with dual uses as food and medicine. In 2008, Qijiang completed a 100,000-acre papaya industry project. It has obtained the national pollution-free papaya product origin certification and is applying for the national green food certification base. In 2011, it was named the Hometown of Excellent Papayas in China; the average life cycle of papaya trees is more than 100 years. It is understood that the current papaya output in Qijiang has reached tens of thousands of tons, and it is expected to enter the peak period in about three years, with output reaching 60,000 to 80,000 tons.

In 2013, "Qijiang Papaya" applied by the Chongqing Qijiang District Federation of Rural Cooperative Economic Organizations was approved and registered as China's national geographical indication certification trademark by the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. The trademark registration number is: 11794196.