Crop circles with communist characteristics

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2012-10-18 17:47
 Crop circles with communist characteristics
 [Photo/CFP]
 Crop circles with communist characteristics
 Photo/CFP

Crop formations may have baffled many countries for years with aliens or UFOs often blamed for the mysterious shapes found on land, but one farmer in China's Zhejiang province is happy to confess to his creation.

Hu Shuiquan, 80, made a flag of the Communist Party of China and the Chinese characters meaning "happily welcome the 18th National Congress of the CPC" with rice paddy grains in Lin'an, East China's Zhejiang province, Oct 18, 2012.

Hu's family's land cultivated more than 6 hectares of rice this year and they were happy to celebrate their bumper harvest.