Farmer Zhao Jinxia shows fresh codonopsis pilosula, a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine, in Sanhe Village of Weiyuan County, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 31, 2018. The output of Chinese herbal medicine in Gansu Province, with a total planting area of 4.6 million mu (310,000 hectares), is expected to reach 1.2 million tonnes in 2018. Farmers of more than 1,300 villages in poverty have benefited from herb-planting. [Xinhua/Chen Bin]   

 

Farmer Zhao Jinxia digs codonopsis pilosula, a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine, in Sanhe Village of Weiyuan County, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 31, 2018. [Xinhua/Chen Bin]  

  

Farmers harvest fresh codonopsis pilosula, a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine, in Sanhe Village of Weiyuan County, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 31, 2018. [Xinhua/Chen Bin]