Strawberries of Jimo district, Qingdao recently hit the market, bringing some sweet respite to the cold winter weather.  

Since the beginning of this year, local agricultural department has promoted the new method of stereoscopic cultivation to strawberry planters.

The new cultivation technique can raise land use efficiency and make it convenient for tourists to pick the fruit, becoming a new method to increase the farmers' income.

Pupils display the strawberries they picked at a modern agricultural base in Qingdao's Jimo district, Dec 9, 2018. [Photo by Liang Xiaopeng/Xinhua] 

Farmers take care of strawberries at a greenhouse in Jimo district of Qingdao, East China's Shandong province on Dec 9. [Photo by Liang Xiaopeng/Xinhua] 

A group of schoolchildren enjoy picking strawberries at a greenhouse in Jimo district of Qingdao, East China's Shandong province on Dec 9. [Photo by Liang Xiaopeng/Xinhua]