On September 23, the sixth "Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival" main event was 
held in Wanzhi District of Wuhu City, Anhui Province.

The theme of this year's Harvest Festival is "Celebrating the Harvest and 
Promoting Harmony", and the main event will include 10 series of activities 
such as a mass celebration of the harvest, the National Agricultural Science 
and Technology Equipment Achievement Exhibition and the Chinese Farming Culture 
Exhibition, rural food tasting, the Harvest Festival Autumn Consumption Season, 
and the Farmer's Sporting and Fitness Competition, according to Wuhu Media 
Center.

For the first time, a mascot named "Hehe&Meimei" was set up for this event. The 
mascot takes the three major staple grains "rice, wheat and corn" as its 
modeling elements.

In the "tasting harvest - countryside food tasting activities" 100 counties 
famous snacks fair, from all over the province, more than 150 Anhui cuisine 
on-site display of the city, so that visitors can enjoy the "Anhui good taste" 
food feast. Among them, only Wuhu to prepare 77 local specialties. Wuhu cuisine 
both the clear taste of the Jiangnan water town, along the fresh flavor of the 
river cuisine, the mellow taste of the farmhouse stove, as well as a variety of 
snacks of the local flavor.

Wuhu City has been known as "the hometown of fish and rice in the south of the 
Yangtze River", is one of the "four major rice markets", within the territory 
of the "Wuhu rice" "Nanling rice Wuhu rice" and "Nanling rice" have been 
awarded geographical indications for agricultural products. Wuhu is also the 
national wisdom of agriculture pioneer city. At present, the Wuhu rice planting 
area reaches 280,000 mu. By 2025, full coverage of 600,000 mu of technological 
rice planting area will be realized.

Source: Wuhu Media Center