Small farmers grow in larger enterprise

Liu Zhengming's newly built farmhouse is equipped with all the electrical appliances and mod-cons you would find in a city household.

"As you can see, life is much better now," says the 59-year-old ginger grower with a beaming smile.

That is because the farmer from Gongjiazhuang village, near Laiwu in Shandong province, transferred the rights to his land to China's largest exporter of ginger, the Laiwu Manhing Vegetables Fruits Corp, in 2008.