On May 29, villagers in Changchun Village, Shaxi Town, Zigui County were planting rice seedlings in the field.

　　In recent years, measures have been taken in Zigui County for abandoned farmland renovationand transferto explore a new farmland management mode, in which professional scaled farming was introduced to set up professional cooperatives of large-scaled farming in the form of "cooperative plus farmers", farmland owners benefiting fromprofit sharing andstock bonusbased on land stock-cooperation. These initiativesnotonly made full use of abandoned farmlandwith the farmers ‘income increased, but also improvedthe rural environment. (Xinhua News; Photo by Mei Xuefei)