Bountiful fish harvest joy to Shandong's town

After over a year of diligent efforts, the pit pond farming project in Chaozhai village, Daiwan town, Linqing, a county-level city administered by Liaocheng city in East China's Shandong province, has yielded a bountiful harvest. By adapting measures to local conditions and integrating farming and breeding, Chaozhai village has utilized its idle pit ponds and cylindrical aquaculture to cultivate freshwater bass, forging a very special path toward rural vitalization. (Edited by Hao Zhiqiang and Du Xiaping)

Fishermen cast their nets in the pond, as the fish flail about. [Photo by Hao Zhiqiang for chinadaily.com.cn]

A fisherman concentrates on catching fish in the pond. [Photo by Hao Zhiqiang for chinadaily.com.cn]