Farmers plant rice seedlings in the fields of Yuanbao Village in Shangzhi, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, on May 25, 2012. The transplanting is nearly finished by the end of May. This year, Heilongjiang rice acreage has expanded 87,000 hectares year-on-year to a total of 5.53 million hectares, one fourth of the national total (XINHUA) |