Harbin's harvest in quality foods

The first flagship store for green food from Heilongjiang opened in Hong Kong in February offering more than 200 specialties from the Northeast China province.

Of the 64 product providers, 27 are based in the provincial capital Harbin. The city is a national base of both industry and agriculture, widely believed to be an area to grow rice, corn and soybeans of world-class quality.

With many rivers flowing through and abundant rain, Harbin boasts rich water resources and the largest forest area of all provincial capitals nationwide. Nearly half of the city's area is forest.