Fishermen haul a giant net at Qiandao Lake in Chun'an, Zhejiang province, on Thursday, to celebrate the Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival. Some 40 metric tons of carp were netted. (WANG JIANCAI/FOR CHINA DAILY)
The fifth Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival, designated on the day of the Autumnal Equinox, falls on Friday this year, with a major event to be held in Chengdu, Sichuan province.
Tang Ke, head of the office of the festival's organizing committee, said the festival this year will highlight the purpose of benefiting farmers through presenting and promoting new varieties of seeds and new technologies in agriculture, as well as publicizing the law around rural vitalization.
In Jiangsu province, a week of voluntary medical care services and schooling assistance will be launched in rural areas to help farmers.
Activities featuring farming culture, such as presenting intangible agricultural heritage and sports events in rural areas will be held during the festival.
A market for cultural and creative products will be open in Henan province while a farmers' singing event is planned in Heilongjiang province to showcase local traditions.
Events to boost food consumption will be organized in 36 cities in an effort to increase farmers' incomes and vitalize the festival economy.
Award winners of the Top Ten Farmers and National Farmers' Skills Competition will be unveiled, Tang added.
The major event of the festival this year is set on farmland at an agricultural exhibition park in Chengdu, where five exhibition centers have been built next to a 200-hectare high-quality plot of farmland, introducing rural culture and grain-related technologies.
Colorful rice planted on the farmland creatively portrays corn, cabbage, chickens and granaries, providing an image of the harvest and prosperity for visitors, Tang said.
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