Unique experiment helps turn wasteland into a rice bowl

There's a golden yellow hue over a paddy field at Jianglong village, Dongxing city in the southern Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in July.

The coastal village is home to the Jing ethnic people, whose ancestors were said to have migrated from Vietnam about 500 years ago and settled on islands off the coast of Dongxing.

The villagers are busy harvesting rice. "We could produce 200,000 kilograms (of the unhusked rice) this season," says Liu Fuzhen, who is in charge of the plantation known for its selenium-rich rice.