The Taklimakan's fruitful daughter who makes the sand bloom

Li Zifan harvests figs at her tech-driven facility agricultural park in Yingxia Township of Korla City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 11, 2025. (Xinhua/Gu Yu) ...
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Li, a native of Korla in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, used to offer her roommates locally produced pears and dates -- "uneven in taste, irregular in size," she recalled. Her ...