RESILIENT SECTOR A farmer works in a strawberry farm on the day of Lixia in Fuzhou in southeast China’s Fujian Province on Thursday, May 5, 2022. ‘Lixia’ marks the seventh solar term on the Chinese lunar calendar signifying the beginning of summer. XINHUA PHOTO
BEIJING: China's agricultural sector and rural economy have maintained stable performance this year despite pressures from sporadic Covid-19 outbreaks and fluctuations in international markets, Deng Xiaogang, vice minister of agricultural and rural affairs, told Xinhua in an interview.