In order to make full use of the barren hills and to speed up the development of econmy in hilly region，we be-gan the experiment of cultivating pomegranate in hilly region in 1990. During the following four years

we success-fully . finished the experiment. We not only brought forth new ideas of cultivating technigues of high qualitypomegranate. finding out the reason why some pomegranate flowers can not bear fruit and the way to increase therate of bearing fruit .but also we proved that the cultivation of pomegranate is helpfui to conserve water and soil inhilly region. Now the total area of hill pomagranate has increased to 1 .800 hectare in our city，and the output offresh fruit is 632300kg in 1993. The social economic benefits is 3. 072 million yuan.