Around 95% of wheat harvested in China

Golden wheat dries under the sun in Yuncheng, Shanxi province. [Photo by Gao Xinsheng/For chinadaily.com.cn]

Some 19.8 million hectares of wheat, or 95 percent of the total wheat-planting areas, have been harvested as of Saturday, official data showed, as China races against the clock to salvage crops against rainfall.

Figures published by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs showed that regions across the country have made efforts to coordinate the use of agricultural machinery, and advanced the harvesting and wheat-drying work in an orderly manner.

Sichuan, Hubei, Anhui, Henan, and Jiangsu provinces have finished the work one after another, it said.

Shandong province has completed more than 95 percent of the job, and the figure in Hebei, Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces are 90 percent, 90 percent, and 75 percent, respectively.