Across China: NW China inland province harvests "seafood" from saline-alkali lands

LANZHOU, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- For farmers on China's inland and arid Loess Plateau, fishing nets were once unfamiliar tools. But Zhao Guohua, a 45-year-old who spent most of her life growing wheat, has now mastered their use for a seemingly unrealistic task, namely the harvesting of "seafood."

She cast a fishing net into the pond and slowly retrieved it. Contained within this net was a shimmering and splashing mass of Pacific white shrimps, previously an impossible bounty of nature in this part of China.