Saline-alkali land transformed into paddy fields in NE China

STORY: Saline-alkali land transformed into paddy fields in NE China DATELINE: Aug. 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:06 LOCATION: CHANGCHUN, China CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of paddy fields in Jilin Province STORYLINE: Located in the northeast China's Jilin Province, Zhenlai is the largest rice production county in the province. Zhenlai sits in one of the three major soda saline-alkali land areas in the world. More than half of the cultivated land here is saline-alkali land. The economy development has been restricted by wind and sand, drought and flood. People here have been suffering poverty for a long time. Since the mid-1980s, Zhenlai formed the development concept of "rice to cure alkali, rice to cure flood and rice to get rich" in the exploration process. At present, Zhenlai has won the fourth consecutive rice annual output champion crown in Jilin, a major agricultural province in China. The paddy fields, which have been described as "constructed wetlands," are changing the saline-alkali land

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