Farmers harvest a bunch of pumpkins and move them to trucks in Xujiaba township of Sinan county, Guizhou province, on Aug 12, 2020.  (YANG WENBIN / XINHUA)

A major country with a long history of agricultural development, China has held a farmers' harvest festival since 2018, which falls on the annual autumnal equinox. The establishment of the festival greatly helps improve farmers' mobility, initiatives and creativity, while also presenting tremendous rural reform. As China aims to achieve a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and eliminate absolute poverty in 2020, this set of photos depicting the festival has demonstrated remarkable accomplishment on China's rural development and rural revitalization.

Villagers sort out grapes in Yongji county of Yuncheng city, Shanxi province, on Sept 4, 2020. (JIANG HUA / FOR CHINA DAILY)

Villagers row wooden barrels to pick and collect water chestnuts in Qintong township of Taizhou city, Jiangsu province, on July 10, 2020. (GU JUN / XINHUA)

A villager cleans sacred lotus at a ditch in Jinde township of Liuzhou city, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on July 3, 2020. (LI HANCHI / XINHUA)

Workers stack and conserve sea salt in Lianyungang city, Jiangsu province, on Sept 10, 2020.  (GENG YU/FOR CHINA DAILY)

A farmer transports tomatoes for selling in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on Sept 16, 2020. (XU QIN / XINHUA)

Villagers dry the red chili peppers on the ground yard in Sandun township of Jiuquan city, Gansu province, on Sept 16, 2020. (HOU CHONGHUI / FOR CHINA DAILY)