Pic story of NPC deputy in China's Hubei

Tian Shuxian is pictured in Anfeng Village, Zhonghuopu Town of Chibi City, central China's Hubei Province, on Feb. 7, 2025. Tian Shuxian, a deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC), is the director of an ecological planting and breeding cooperative in Chibi City.

With a master's degree in agriculture, Tian has devoted herself to helping villagers reap more gains with science and technology.

Tian proposed rice-shrimp-duck farming and went door to door to provide guidance to villagers. She set up an ecological agriculture laboratory, a microbial culture room, and a water quality testing room in the fields, and built an ecological aquaculture demonstration base.

After years of efforts, Tian initiated the establishment of an ecological planting and breeding cooperative and built a modern agricultural service center, in an effort to speed up the modernization of agriculture here with the villagers.

As a deputy to the NPC, this year, Tian Shuxian will bring suggestions on the comprehensive utilization of straws and the promotion of agricultural digitization. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)