Gaoyou Lake hairy crabs are geographical indication protected products. Gaoyou Lake hairy crab is a geographical indication certification trademark.

Gaoyou Lake hairy crabs are a specialty of Gaoyou City, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. Gaoyou Lake Wetland is rich in biological resources, the most outstanding of which are Gaoyou Lake hairy crabs, which are pure natural and unique in the world. When visiting Gaoyou, you must see the lake, and when you see the lake, you must eat hairy crabs.

Gaoyou Lake has a water area of ??760 square kilometers, connecting the Huaihe River to the north and the Yangtze River to the south. It is a shallow-water lake and the third largest lake in Jiangsu Province. Gaoyou Lake has a wide water area, excellent water quality, a unique ecological environment, and rich aquatic products. It is especially famous for its lake crabs, which have become one of the royal tributes as early as the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Shi in the Song Dynasty highly praised Shangyou Lake Crab. He wrote "Yangzhou sent local objects to young tourists", in which the "local objects" refer to Gaoyou Lake crabs. Su Shi went to Gaoyou to visit Qin Guan. On the cultural tour platform, the two of them enjoyed the lake view while tasting crabs. Song Dynasty poets once wrote poems praising it: "Recalling the visits of Po Immortal here in the past, the characters were all romantic for a while, and the purple crabs were served as cups of fragrant milkweed." Drink, use colored pens and silver hooks to sing and sing. "Since the Song Dynasty, Gaoyou Lake crab has become a delicacy for Yangzhou people. According to local recipes, there are more than ten kinds of dishes made with lake crab, including steamed crab, fried crab thread, snowflake crab bucket, crab roe tofu, crab roe braised shark fin, crab meat lion head, crab roe soup dumplings, etc.

The production area of ??Gaoyou Lake hairy crabs is the waters of Gaoyou Lake and its basin in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province.