In September, 2021, the rice bends the waist as if in laughter in the fields of Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, NW China’s Xinjiang. Strings of plump rice ears carry a year of hard work and hope of the farmers. Looking around, the golden pastoral landscape, composed of sunlight and rice fields, is poetic and gorgeous. (Correspondents: Zheng Feifei, Nurmanbay Jetmisbay)