Grassroots NPC deputy sows seeds of hope for modern farming

STORY: Grassroots NPC deputy sows seeds of hope for modern farming SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 28, 2024 DATELINE: March 4, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:48 LOCATION: GUANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Shen Yanfen 2. various of people farming and agricultural machinery 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): SHEN YANFEN, National lawmaker 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): SHEN YANFEN, National lawmaker 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): SHEN YANFEN, National lawmaker STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): SHEN YANFEN, National lawmaker "My name is Shen Yanfen, and I am a post-90s 'new farmer.' Before returning to my hometown, I was a white-collar worker in Shenzhen (in China's Guangdong Province), where I worked for six or seven years. In February 2020, I returned to my hometown and took over the management of an agricultural machinery cooperative from my father. Our cooperative mainly provides full-process mechanized services for farmers during the planting process." SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): SHEN YANFEN, National lawmaker "Now,

(ChineseToday) CHINA-RURAL REVITALIZATION-YOUTH (CN)

(ChineseToday) CHINA-RURAL REVITALIZATION-YOUTH (CN)

(231222) -- BEIJING, Dec. 22, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Shen Xiaofen operates a farming machine at an agricultural machinery professional cooperative in Shihu Village of Shitan Township, Guangzhou City, south China's Guangdong Province, Sept. 13, 2023. Shen Xiaofen returned to her hometown after graduating from college in 2018, while her sister Shen Yanfen quit her job in Shenzhen and came back to work in agricultural machinery business in 2020. The sisters are now in charge of the agricultural machinery professional cooperative which was set up by their father. In the past three years, the cooperative has provided services of rice production, cultivation, management and harvest, revitalized and utilized 3,000 mu (200 hectares) of idle fields, and helped the villagers in four surrounding villages to increase their income by more than 1.2 million yuan (about 168,133 U.S. dollars) per year. As China moved to advance rural revitalization, more and more young people have returned from cities to the countryside which now b