China 3 is a variety of lychee fruit, belonging to the family Sapindaceae and tribe Nepheleae.

[citation needed] Planting may also be done after the rainy season, i.e. August–September, but regular irrigation is required for better establishment of the orchard.

[7] The spacing of 10 m is found to be adequate in areas where the soil is deep loam and fertile and when necessary care is taken during the initial stage of cultivation.

In the case of high density planting the spacing is 4 m x 4 m.[6] Fruit quality of china-3 is the best among the available land races, the vast majority of which are harsh in taste with low pulp:stone proportion.

The recently released BARI Lichu-3 resembles China-3 in size, shape, quality and taste, but is yet to be distributed to the farmers.