Farmers benefit from herb-planting in China's Gansu

Farmers collect astragalus roots, a traditional Chinese medicinal material, in Hejiawan Village of Weiyuan County, northwest China's Gansu Province, Nov. 1, 2018. The output of Chinese herbal medicine in Gansu Province, with a total planting area of 4.6 million mu (310,000 hectares), is expected to reach 1.2 million tonnes in 2018. Farmers of more than 1,300 villages in poverty have benefited from herb-planting. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)