As early as 842 BC, the "book of Song*Hui Feng" highly praised kiwifruit with famous poetry ",;,", means in the low moist places, there grows the kiwi fruit, its branches sway in the wind, and its fruit sway together with its branches. Li Shizhen also described the kiwi fruit lively in his book of Compendium of Material Medical as ",,,", it means "its shape is like a pear, its color is like peach, and Mi monkey likes eating it, so we call it MiHouTao(kiwi fruit)". In 1899 Willson from United Kimdom came to China to collect and study plants, and he found the local kiwifruit is very delicious and rich nutrition in the mountain area of Yichang, so he introduced it to his foreign friends who live in Yichang. In 1910 the kiwifruit with blossom in New Zealand, brought by a female teacher on holiday in China. And then Hayward, who created the world's famous white Hayward varieties, here came the name of kiwifruit.
After that, Kiwi commercial cultivation has been developed and formed the kiwi fruit industry in New Zealand, New Zealand kiwi and extension of products are sold to more than 100 countries, New Zealand kiwi fruit industry has become the second pillar industries.