Shouguang's greenhouses ensure year-round growth

Every morning, Pan Qingyong picks about 500 kilograms of fresh cucumber at his greenhouse and takes them to a nearby market.

He now grows around 15,000 cucumber plants in the new 196-meter-long structure, after investing more than 400,000 yuan ($61,000) to build it, and expects to have it paid off within two years.

In Pan's village - Panjiadao in the county-level city of Shouguang, in East China's Shandong province - there are around 80 similar new agricultural greenhouses, and nearly 400 smaller ones.