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Seeds of Change

As a child, Qin Jing used to watch his father and other family elders grow mushrooms to make a living in the 1990s. Now 37 years old, he is the general manager of a mushroom processing and sales company in Suixian, a county under the city of Suizhou in Hubei Province, central China.

Suizhou is one of the leading mushroom-growing regions. Qin has witnessed the development of the city’s mushroom industry from traditional and small-scale to large-scale and technology-driven. Now he’s part of it himself.

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