Bumper harvest expected; autumn crops may face climate challenges

Amid intervals of kung fu and meditation, monks from the Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng are busy this month harvesting wheat, one of the bumper crops seen across China this summer.

China is predicting another increase in the yield of summer crops as the harvest is more than 80 percent complete nationwide, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Monday.

"It seems a bumper harvest is a certainty. The wheat output is expected to hit a record high based on a survey of the Ministry of Agriculture and statistics from local governments," Han Changfu, minister of agriculture, told China Central Television.