Li Yonghong is a busy woman, as an increasing number of people visit her restaurant to taste the distinctive dishes made with local kumquats, which are in their peak ripening season.
The scrumptious Taihu Lake water crabs in Binhu district of Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province are now available for sale. This particular breed of crabs has in recent years become just as popular as the famous Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs.
Traditionally associated with rivers and lakes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, hairy crabs are now being sourced from new regions in China. This year, consumers can find crabs from the Yellow River Delta and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, made available through the online fresh grocery platform Dingdong Maicai.
In the remote northeastern corner of China, what was once a local secret — the forest-grown ginseng — is now making its way into markets around the globe. This unlikely journey from obscurity to international acclaim is led by Chen Ruoqing, 41, a determined entrepreneur from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
BEIJING-Watermelons have brought Beijing farmer Li Wanbo 300,000 yuan ($46,200) this summer alone, a great leap from when he worked in the city proper with a monthly salary of 4,000 yuan.