Across China: Edible fungi from Chinese farmers now space food

SHANGHAI/GUIYANG, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- In a room resembling a space capsule filled with blue light, tens of thousands of Petri dishes, nurturing clusters of white enoki mushrooms, were placed on shelves.

This was not a scene from a sci-fi movie but an edible fungus breeding room in Weining Xuerong Biotechnology Co., Ltd, one of the largest targeted poverty alleviation projects in China's southwestern mountainous province of Guizhou.