In Shizhu Tujia autonomous county under Chongqing, its 388,200 residents are mainly located in the Wushan Mountains, comprised mainly of hilly countryside. With a 700-year history in cultivating coptis — a small genus of low-elevation perennial herbs having yellow rhizomes and white or yellow flowers — the county has... read full story
"Now it's harvest season for our coptis, with a yield of about 300 kilograms per mu and bringing in an income of some 100,000 yuan per mu,"