China accelerates rice cultivation in saline soil

Farmers operate a machine to transplant rice seedlings in a paddy field with saline-alkali soil in Xiaodanba Village of Hohhot, north China's Inner Monglia Autonomous Region, June 1, 2015. China has about 100 million hectares of saline-alkali soil, of which about one fifth could be ameliorated to arable soil. (Xinhua/Wang Zheng)