Orchards bloom as 'barren' landscape blossoms

WUHAN — Cao Guiyuan has had a busy harvest season on her peach plantation in Central China's Hubei province.

The 34-year-old has done well to transform more than 200 hectares of barren land in Xinzhou district in the city of Wuhan into a vast and thriving peach plantation.

"With the higher temperatures and drier weather, the quality of the peach gum improves," Cao says. She adds that the continuous fair weather this summer has resulted in plump globs of peach gum, which can be processed into food products.