(CHEN HAINING)

An agricultural technician plants tomato seedlings on Longyun Farm in Xiangyun County of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province.

To ensure normal plantation of agricultural crops in the drought, the local government has established a large plantation and processing park to produce quality agricultural products. Xiangyun has finished planting 8,000 mu (533 hectares) of greenhouse vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, pimento and tomato, with water consumption reduced by 30 percent.