Couple sow seeds of success in Tibet county

Nearly two decades ago, Zhang Jiming was still a farmer in a village in Jinan, East China's Shandong province. He never thought he would do anything else except tend to his crops, or travel anywhere too far from his fields.

He could never have imagined that he would become a teacher for farmers in Panam county in the Tibet autonomous region, on the other side of the country, helping the locals to grow new types of food and improve their way of life.

Zhang, 54, arrived in Tibet as one of the hundreds of people from Shandong who have offered their expertise to help the region's development since 2000.