June 13, 2016

Thousands of people converge on Xuyi County, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, for an annual crayfish festival.

April 10, 2017

The terraced rice paddies in Yuanyang, southwestern China are a UNESCO World Heritage site.

March 31, 2017

Pork is loaded onto a motorcycle at the Shanghai wholesale meat market, for delivery around the city.

June 13, 2016

Soybeans are offloaded at Zhangjiagang harbor, eastern China. Some 60 percent of soybeans traded worldwide are bought by China, with more than half the imports coming from Brazil.

July 9, 2016

A wealthy Shanghai couple enjoy an afternoon tea of Western-style cakes, fruit and iced coffee.

June 24, 2016

A network of sea cucumber pens share Yantai Harbor with an industrial shipyard where oil-drilling platforms are being built. With limited arable land, China turns to the sea to help meet food needs.

June 18, 2016

Seaweed hangs to dry on a novel system of rotary drying racks, in Shandong, eastern China.

June 20, 2016

Workers process meat in the main cutting room of Jinluo Meat, in Shandong, eastern China. China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of pork, and the market is growing rapidly.

June 16, 2016

Workers process chickens at a facility belonging to the large state-owned food-processing conglomerate, COFCO, in Suqian, near Shanghai.

June 21, 2016

Students Shandong Lanxiang Senior Technical School, Shandong, eastern China, learn how to stir-fry. They are taught to prepare both traditional dishes, and those suited to a changing Chinese palate.