Ten companies from Xinghua city recently participated in the first phase of this year's China Import and Export Fair, or Canton Fair.

The Chinese women's chess team won the championship in the 19th Asian Games – held in Hangzhou city, capital of East China's Zhejiang province.

A crab and chrysanthemum music and food festival took place in Xinghua city – administered by Taizhou city, Jiangsu province – from Sept 26 to Oct 6.

The first Taizhou Green and Healthy Agricultural Products (Shanghai) Exhibition took place in Shanghai on Sept 26-27.

Crab farmers in Xinghua city have been hard at it of late, with 630,000 mu (42,000 hectares) of crab ponds now fully harvested.

A promotional conference for the 2023 Xinghua crab and chrysanthemum tourism season took place in Nanjing, the capital city of East China's Jiangsu province, on Sept 6.

Xinghua Sanhe Agricultural Products Planting Co Ltd was honored as a national standardization demonstration base for the whole industrial chain of modern agriculture.

A grape picking festival was held in Linhu township, in Xinghua city – administered by Taizhou city in East China's Jiangsu province – on Aug 27.