In early summer, visitors driving to Baiqiao village in Genzi town, Gaozhou city, a county-level city under Maoming, south China's Guangdong Province, are welcomed by branches heavy with bright red lychees and farmers inviting tourists to taste the sweet fruit. Gongyuan orchard in the village is one of the country’s largest and oldest lychee orchards, home to the widest variety of lychees.
Rows of logs used to grow mushrooms hang from tree trunks at Xujiang Forest Farm in Guangchang county, east China's Jiangxi Province, where a thriving underforest economy is taking root. Xie Yuancai, head of Fuzhou Licai Edible Fungi Co.
Workers are picking, sorting and packaging roses at a modern flower industry park in Lijiang city, southwest China's Yunnan Province, as the region enters its peak blooming season. Rows of flowers stretch across the fields, forming the heart of a rapidly growing industry that is transforming the local economy.
A villager picks ripe wood ear mushrooms at Xujiang Forest Farm in Guangchang county, Fuzhou city, east China's Jiangxi Province. (People's Daily Online/Shi Yu) Guangchang county in Fuzhou, east China's Jiangxi Province, where forests cover 72 percent of the land, has built 45 demonstration sites for its "underforest economy," which involves cultivating crops and other products beneath forest canopies, benefiting 11 townships and reclamation farms.
