Families help each other to harvest

NINGQIANG, Shaanxi: Seven-year-old Zhou Linlin helped her mother to carry rice seedlings, while her father ploughed the paddy fields along the Yudai River.

She had a thermos bottle in her right hand and several plastic cups in the left hand, ready to serve hot water to the tillers in the fields when they got thirsty.

However, the nuclear family is not busy farming its own paddy fields.