Village cooperative in China exports high-quality vegetables to Russian cities

Staff members sort and package color peppers in a fruit and vegetable cooperative at Cuilingxi Village of Shouguang City, east China's Shandong Province, July 7, 2019. Shouguang is famous for production of "off-season vegetables" and is a major vegetable producer and distributing center. Cuilingxi, a village in Shouguang, set up in 2014 a cooperative mainly producing high-quality fruit and vegetables such as tomato and color pepper. Every year, the cooperative exports over 15,000 tons of high-quality vegetables to the cities in Russia, with the trade volume exceeding 100 million yuan (about 15 million U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Zhu Zheng)