At a production workshop of the Yichang Yilinghong Ecological Agriculture Development Co Ltd, workers were busy sorting tangerines. (Photo by Reporter/Zhou Chongyu)

　　During the National Day holidays every year when the ultra-early-ripe variety of the Yichang tangerines goes to market, the citrus business in Yichang booms. Since early October this year, local enterprises of citrus sales have ramped up their processing, with a 7/24 schedule, to shore up the tangerine export supply.

　　During the seven-day holidays, the Yichang tangerines were shipped to Russia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Vietnam and so on, with a daily export volume exceeding 100 tons. (Reporters/Ma Lin and Zhou Chongyu, Correspondent/Yan Shijie)