China's Harbin making efforts to ensure food supply amid pandemic

STORY: China's Harbin making efforts to ensure food supply amid pandemic DATELINE: March 30, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:07 LOCATION: HARBIN CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of HarbinSTANDUP (English): CHEN CONG, Xinhua correspondentSOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LI XIAOJU, General manager of Longyuan wholesale marketSOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LYU BIN, Researcher of Market Regulation Administration in Xiangfang District, Harbin STORYLINE: China's northeastern city of Harbin has been making efforts to ensure food supply amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. STANDUP (English): CHEN CONG, Xinhua correspondent "Now we are in Harbin's Hada Market, the biggest wholesale market for fruits and vegetables in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. Since new cases of COVID-19 in the latest outbreak were reported here, the market has been shut down. A string of measures were adopted to curb the spread of epidemic and stabilize supply." Other wholesale markets together with big supermarkets in Harbin have increased fruits and vegetabl

CHINA-SHANDONG-PAKISTANI STUDENT-VEGETABLE RESEARCH (CN)

CHINA-SHANDONG-PAKISTANI STUDENT-VEGETABLE RESEARCH (CN)

(220107) -- SHANDONG, Jan. 7, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Dr. Anwar Ali ckecks the growth of tissue culture vegetable he cultivated at the Institute of Vegetables and Flowers of Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Jinan, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 7, 2022. In 2016, Ali, a Pakistani student at that time, came to China and got his doctor's degree at the Institute of Vegetables and Flowers of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In 2021, he came to Jinan for further study, conducting his post-doctoral research here. "Shandong is a major agricultural province in China, which also has the edge on agricultural technology," said Ali. He hopes to bring the advanced vegetable planting technology he has learned here back to Pakistan to help develop the agricultural industry of his homeland. Ali is glad that he can witness and disseminate China-Pakistan friendship with vegetabl.....