In pics: agriculture sector mechanization rate exceeds 66 pct in China

A farm machine works to dry wheat in Sihong County, east China's Jiangsu Province, June 3, 2018. China has seen an outstanding shift in way of farming with the mechanization rate in the agriculture sector exceeding 66 percent in 2017, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said Wednesday. China currently has more than 2,500 agricultural machinery enterprises, and the country's agricultural production is now mainly completed with farming machines, replacing previous manual labor, Zhang Taolin, vice minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, told a press conference. (Xinhua/Zhang Lianhua)