Combo photo shows people threshing wheat with an electric thresher in the suburb of Zhengzhou in the 1970s (top, photo taken by Lu Ke), and staff members using a conveyor to transfer purchased wheat to the granary in Fangcheng County on June 15, 2016 (photo taken by Li An), in central China's Henan Province. Henan is an important province for agricultural production in China. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, especially during the 40-plus years of reform and opening-up, mechanized and hi-tech farming has helped improve the quality and efficiency of agricultural business there. To date, an increasing number of farmers there are embracing advanced agricultural equipment and management process, bidding farewell to traditional arduous means of agricultural operation. (Xinhua)
