Chinese festival marks nation's hard-won bumper harvest

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Millions celebrate harvest festival

Hundreds of millions of Chinese farmers celebrated the third harvest festival yesterday, as the country expects a bumper crop despite the impacts of COVID-19 and severe floods.The Chinese leadership has described the anticipated autumn harvest as “hard-won” after the country saw severe floods in the Yangtze River, disruptions by the epidemic, droughts in the north as well as typhoons.The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has said this au…