My Institute for the Future colleagues Lyn Jeffery and Jason Li's outstanding Virtual China blog has been reborn as 88 Bar. That's where I spotted this image of what appears to be a photographer taking a shot of a massive pumpkin (but is just an optical illusion), in an ultra high-tech green house in Tianjin, north China. According to a translated article in SINA, the demo greenhouse is "a model of modern sightseeing agriculture."
Modern "sightseeing agriculture" in China
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