China Scene: East

No one willing to shell out big time for giant turtle

Visitors to the Jiuxi Farm Produce Market in Xiaoshan, Zhejiang province, were impressed with a gigantic turtle tipping the scales at a whopping 11.5 kg last Saturday.

Gao, a peddler dealing fish in the market, found the turtle among a pile of rocks by the Qiantang River last Saturday. He originally thought the turtle was a rock until it suddenly moved.