Across China: The making of China's apple capital on the Loess Plateau

NAMPA / Xinhua

2025-12-25

XI'AN, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- For farmer Cui Weidong, the culmination of decades of scientific effort can be savored in a single bite of the crisp, sweet apple known as Qincui. On his one hectare in the loess hills of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, the 40-year-old has watched his orchard, and his livelihood, steadily transform. Fertilizer use has fallen by two-thirds and water consumption by 80 percent. Income, by contrast, has surged. La......

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