CX Daily: Warming Climate Threatens Chinese Farmers’ Livelihoods

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In Depth: Warming climate threatens Chinese farmers’ livelihoods

After the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations ended in Huma, a county at the northern reaches of Northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, farmer Xu Xiujian began harvesting his soybean crop. He had planted earlier than usual this year, in line with the spring rains, which had come early in mid-April.

Xu’s case, while seemingly unremarkable on its own, reflects a much larger shift happening in China’s climate and the impact it is having on the country’s agricultural industry.