Overseas cooperation grows at leading agricultural center

Standing under the burning sun in a sweltering apple orchard in the afternoon is not a pleasant experience, but for overseas students who want to learn agricultural technology in Yangling area in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, it is how an ordinary class takes place.

More than 30 students from Mongolia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, South Sudan, Tanzania and Thailand were learning water-saving irrigation technology in the China-Kazakhstan Friendship Orchard, located in the Yangling Agricultural High-Tech Industries Demonstration Zone, 80 kilometers from Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province.

Guo Lanjun, general manager of the orchard, said it produced 4,000-5,000 kilograms of apples annually, and half of them are exported to countries such as Russia and Kazakhstan.