As China moved to advance rural revitalization, more and more young people have returned from cities to the countryside which now brims with possibilities. As the new-generation farmers or young entrepreneurs, they often brought back funds, modern farming concepts and e-commerce business models to help transform the farming landscape.
Wu Jiahuan (front) operates a drone to spray pesticides in rice fields at Yangji Village, Kuainan Township, Wuhe County, east China's Anhui Province, Aug. 1, 2023. Wu Jiahuan, a post-95s youth, returned to his hometown after graduation and now runs a family farm with his father covering an area of 380 mu (about 25.3 hectares). During years of construction, various agricultural machinery and equipment were added, and a 300-square-meter grain storage warehouse was built, their business moves on the right track. (Xinhua/Huang Bohan)Lyu Xin picks blueberries at a greenhouse in Xinkou Township, Xiqing District of Tianjin, north China, May 3, 2023. Lyu Xin, a post-85s youth, runs a family farm with her husband Feng Aixi mainly focusing on blueberry planting and gets a nicknamed "blue sister". Their blueberry fields cover an area of over 50 mu (about 3.3 hectares), she also created an account on short video platform to promote the business. (Xinhua/Li Ran)Wu Jinbiao arranges the feathers of an ostrich at an ostrich breeding cooperative in Huichang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Sept. 13, 2023. Wu Jinbiao, a generation-Y youth who graduated from a technical secondary school, started an ostrich breeding cooperative with his schoolmates. Last year, over 700 ostriches were sold at the cooperative with an output value exceeding 2 million yuan (about 279,800 U.S. dollars). The business also helped more than 40 local households increase income. (Xinhua/Hu Chenhuan)Pan Yajie (1st L) promotes grapes at a grape garden in Zipeng Township, Feixi County of east China's Anhui Province, Aug. 30, 2023. Pan Yajie, 26, returned to China after getting her master degree abroad. Working at the grape garden of her family, in addition to daily works including management, picking and sales, Pan also takes her advantage to promote the products via live-streaming. This autumn, Pan's family enjoyed a bumper harvest. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)Liu Yahui (R) and Wang Yingfan inspect the irrigation system at a high standard farmland demonstration area in Xiping County of Zhumadian City, central China's Henan Province, Feb. 28, 2023. After graduating from universities, Liu and his generation-Y colleague Wang Yingfan work on the management and operation of 12,000 mu (800 hectares) of high standard farmlands in Xiping using advanced agricultural technologies. With the farmland command and dispatch platform, meteorology, water quality, soil moisture, seedling conditions and insect conditions are controlled on the screens, and the Internet of Things controls more than 250 automatic sprinkler irrigation equipment and intelligent terminals. (Xinhua/Zhang Haoran)Wu Ruina (1st R) guides the workers to manage vegetables in Jiasong Township of Nanhe District, Xingtai City, north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 26, 2023. After graduating from university, Wu, a post-90s youth, returns to her hometown in Xingtai and becomes a technician in a modern agricultural demonstration park, working on the research of farming technologies such as vegetable seedling cultivation, soil detection, and pest prevention. (Xinhua/ Zhu Xudong)Youngsters catch fish in the rice field after autumn harvest in Huanggang Village of Shuangjiang Township, Liping County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Oct. 5, 2023. A green and sustainable agriculture mode which combines cultivations of rice and fish has been applied here, and helped significantly increase local farm yields. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)He Jiangnan (R) and his colleagues sell local specialties via live-streaming in Chongyang Village of Gaohong Township, Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, July 21, 2023. After returning to his hometown, He Jiangnan has been working on live-streaming and making short videos to promote the sale of local food and specialties and increase the income of villagers. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)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. (Xinhua/Deng Hua)Wang Lingli checks the condition of rapeseed in Longxing Township of Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Oct. 10, 2023. Wang, a post-90s college graduate, returned to her hometown to work as a farmer in 2015. In eight years, the land area managed by Wang Lingli has expanded from 3,000 mu (200 hectares) to more than 6,500 mu (about 433 hectares). (Xinhua/Wang Xi)Bai Hua gives an injection to a cow in Hequan Village of Yuanzhou District, Guyuan City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, April 17, 2023. Bai is a post-95s vet working in villages of her hometown Yuanzhou. After returning to her hometown, she set up a veterinary service station and started to share her daily life as a vet on short video platforms. Now she has more than 3 million followers on the social media and about 15,000 friends in her three Wechat accounts, most of which are nearby breeders. Under the influence of Bai Hua, several post-90s veterinarians also returned to their hometown and joined her team. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua)Jiang Peng (C) and his colleagues work on the designs of new products in Xikou Village of Longyou County, east China's Zhejiang Province, April 3, 2023. Jiang used to work in an animation design company in Hangzhou. In 2018, Jiang and his wife returned to his hometown in Longyou and started to work in the design and production of bamboo wares. Nearly 100 young entrepreneurs have now settled in Xikou, with an average age of less than 30 years old. (Xinhua/Weng Xinyang)Yuan Xiaoxin creates tie-dye patterns in Xiazhuang Village of Wushan County, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Oct. 10, 2023. Yuan, 31 years old, returned to her hometown and set up a tie-dye workshop in 2022. Tie-dye is one of the traditional dyeing techniques in China. With the improvement of the village infrastructure, more and more tourists come to Xiazhuang Village, and the tie-dye handicrafts produced by Yuan's workshop are selling well, with a monthly revenue of more than 10,000 yuan (about 1,401 U.S. dollars) during the tourist season. (Xinhua/Huang Wei)
