中花5号是通过人工杂交和改良系谱法选育的优质花生新品种，在区域试验和生产试验中表现优良，具有高产稳产、含油量高、商品率高、早熟、抗旱、高固氮、适应性广等特性。1998年通过湖北、四川和全国农作物品种审定，适合长江流域产区种植，是良好的油用型优质花生品种，在适宜区域已推广应用50×104hm2以上，获“九五”国家科技攻关农作物新品种后补助和2001年度湖北省科技进步二等奖。
Zhonghua No.5 was a new peanut cultivar with improved seed quality. It was developed through artificial hybridization and modified pedigree selection. In various trials, it significantly outyielded the control cultivars with desirable stability across locations. It possessed a high oil content as 55.46%, high shelling percentage as 75% and desirable resistance to drought and late leafspot. In 1998, it was released by the Crop Varietal Approval Committee in Hubei, Sichuan provinces and the Central Government. It was rewarded by the Hubei Provincial Government in 2001.