In pics: agriculture sector mechanization rate exceeds 66 pct in China

A harvester works in the lavender field in the Ili River valley in Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County, Kazak Autonomous Prefecture of Ili, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 27, 2018. China has seen an outstanding shift in way of farming with the mechanization rate in the agriculture sector exceeding 66 percent in 2017, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said Wednesday. China currently has more than 2,500 agricultural machinery enterprises, and the country's agricultural production is now mainly completed with farming machines, replacing previous manual labor, Zhang Taolin, vice minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, told a press conference. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)