To provide a bottle good in transparency, heat resistance, flavour properties, barrier properties, ultraviolet shutting properties, mechanical strength, and moldability and its production method.

In a method for producing a hollow polyester container, 5-95 wt.% of poly(ethylene naphthalene dicarboxylate and 95-5 wt.% of polyethylene terephthalate are melted in a molding machine, and the molten polymers are sucked at a degree of vacuum of 10 Torr or below to mold a preform.