Hechi farmers joy at bumper late season rice

Rice farmers in Guangxi's Hechi city have celebrated a bumper harvest after receiving timely wind and rain late into the growing season.

Reporters from Hechi Daily traveled to Jinchengjiang district to snap photos of the golden rice drying on the open ground in the autumn sun.

A couple from Hechi town, Jinchengjiang district checks on their bumper crop of rice, on Nov 5. [Photo by Gao Dongfeng and Qin aifen/Hechi Daily]

An open square in Hechi town, Jinchengjiang district is coated in a layer of golden rice as it dries in the sun, on Nov 5. [Photo by Gao Dongfeng and Qin aifen/Hechi Daily]

Rice is rolled out in the sun for drying in Hechi town, on Nov 5. [Photo by Gao Dongfeng and Qin aifen/Hechi Daily]