Jiangsu builds a new type of land of fish and rice, food security helps people strive toward moderate prosperity
Original title: Jiangsu strives to build a new type of "land of fish and rice"
In Yanhe Village, Huaihe Town, Xuyi County, members of the Sizhou Vegetable Planting Cooperative harvest Chinese cabbage in the fields (photo taken November 26).
These Chinese cabbages will be sold directly to supermarkets in Nanjing and other cities. The cooperative has more than 200 members and a planting area of more than 3,000 mu. Its products combine greenhouse cash crops with open-field vegetables. Its main products include green peppers, red peppers, Dutch potatoes, early-maturing watermelons and more. Its main registered brand is currently "Sizhou Green Garden," with annual sales of about 8 million yuan. Jiangsu is a developed coastal province crisscrossed by rivers and lakes, with vast plains, long known as a land of fish and rice, and its grain output exceeds the combined total of Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian and Shanghai. Rural areas are an important growth pole for Jiangsu's economy and an important driving force for social development. Jiangsu attaches great importance to agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and is carrying out useful exploration to build China's future new-type countryside - a new-type land of fish and rice. Today's "land of fish and rice," compared with the traditional "land of fish and rice," has already taken on many new features. It not only ensures food security and promotes farmers' income growth, but has also become a new foundation for economic development, a new field for employment, a place that accepts returning migrant workers, a source of new-type workers, and an important carrier for urbanization and the building of a Beautiful China. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ji Chunpeng, photo
In the suburbs of Nanjing, a farmer harvests rice in a paddy field (photo taken November 5). Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xiang, photo
The photo shows the Yangcheng Lake Modern Fishery Industrial Park in Kunshan City (photo taken November 14, 2012). Photo by Xinhua News Agency
In Yanxia Village, Yanji Town, Shuyang County, villager Zhong Qiuli (front) busies herself in the succulent plant greenhouse grown by her older sister Zhong Qiuxiang (photo taken November 30). Zhong Qiuxiang's family completed a succulent plant greenhouse of more than 3,000 sq m in March 2015, and e-commerce daily sales reached 10,000 yuan at their peak. Xinhua News Agency reporter Ji Chunpeng, photo
By the shore of Yangcheng Lake in Bacheng Town, Suzhou, a fisherman catches Chinese mitten crabs from crab cages (photo taken November 26). Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xiang, photo
In Nanjing, Jiangsu, a fishing boat sails across the Yangtze River (photo taken November 26). Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xiang, photo
In Bacheng Town, Suzhou, a fisherman steers a boat on the small river at his doorstep to inspect the pen aquaculture situation (photo taken November 25). Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xiang, photo
Crab farmer Chang Jianhua of Bacheng Town, Kunshan City, catches mature Chinese mitten crabs from ground cages in a pond at night (photo taken September 4, 2014). Xinhua News Agency reporter Han Yuqing, photo