Tourists enjoy picking tomatoes in the Gobi Modern Agricultural Industrial Park of Zongzhai town, Jiuquan, Northwest China's Gansu province on Feb 19. [Photo by Hou Chonghui to chinadaily.com.cn]

Fruit and vegetables in the Gobi Modern Agricultural Industrial Park of Zongzhai town, Jiuquan, Northwest China's Gansu province, are ripe, attracting many tourists to have a taste. 

Jiuquan is redoubling efforts to boost agriculture in the Gobi Desert by developing high value-added fruits, such as cherry tomatoes and ginseng fruits, and introducing new technologies as a way to further raise local farmers' income.