Trains get workers where needed to transplant rice

More than 600 workers were transported some 850 kilometers by train in early May from the city of Suihua in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province to farms on the Sanjiang Plain to assist with the seasonal rice transplanting.

Due to a shortage of local farmhands, migrant workers travel to the Sanjiang Plain area for three weeks every year to help with transplanting. Most of them come from rural parts of Suihua.

Rice transplanting is a labor-intensive task involving rice seedlings grown in a nursery being pulled and planted into puddled and leveled fields.