“Over 20 years ago, once we saw people in inland cities planting tomatoes, green peppers, and other vegetables in greenhouses, we doubted we would ever be successful if we were to try the same.” Penpa Dundrup, the former village secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Pencang Village of Bainang County, Shigatse City, recalled that planting vegetables at the time was a rather new

phenomenon and was very di#cult to kick o".

In 1995, a group of aid-Tibet cadres from Shandong Province conducted the experimental planting of greenhouse vegetables in Bainang County, and in 1998, the second batch of cadres successfully introduced greenhouse-based vegetable cultivation...

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（Text by Wang Yuanyuan）