A heat-resistant, pressure-resistant and self-standing container having a mouth-and-neck portion, a shoulder portion, a barrel portion and a bottom portion that includes valley portions and foot portions obtained by biaxially stretch-blow-molding a polyester resin, wherein the whole container, except the mouth-and neck portion, inclusive of a center of the bottom portion, is reduced in thickness under a highly drawing condition without being accompanied by whitening, so as to have a degree of crystallinity of not smaller than 20% and the bottom valley portions have a yielding load of not smaller than 25 kg/cm at 70.degree. C., and that the whole container, except the mouth-and-neck portion has a thickness of from 0.15 to 1 mm.