Bumper Summer Harvest

Every summer, ripe wheat ripples across large stretches of fields on the North China Plain, a major crop producing area, painting the landscape a mellow yellow and filling farmers’ hearts with joy. Liu Weike, a 37-year-old farmer in Nanhe County of no「th China's Hebei Province, told the media in mid-June that the wheat yield of his and his neighbors* fields in the first half of the year was higher than that of the same period last year.