Chen Shaorong, owner of the firm, said all the mushroom cultivation steps involve strict temperature and humidity requirements, and even one slight problem could lead to severe consequences.

该公司老板陈少荣表示，所有蘑菇种植步骤都涉及严格的温度和湿度要求，即使是一个小问题也可能导致严重后果。

The power company recently sent staff to visit Yaoguang Agricultural Technology Co Ltd, a rural firm focusing on the cultivation and deep processing of Ganoderma lucidum (the Reishi mushroom).

电力公司最近派工作人员参观了耀光农业科技有限公司，这是一家专注于灵芝（Reishi蘑菇）种植和深加工的农村公司。

Guizhou Bright Lingang Jotoku Bio-tech, a highly automated mushroom growing company in Zunyi, Guizhou province, is leveraging technological strengths to raise production efficiency and boost agri-product businesses.

Compared with the past when local farmers plant and harvest mushrooms with their bare hands, today's mushroom planting is more efficient and yields better quality products," said Xi Mingqiang, general manager of the company.

Mushroom and related businesses are helping farmers in the district end poverty and enjoy shared prosperity.

In 2015, US cosmetics giant Bobbi Brown launched a serum foundation formulated with Cordyceps mushroom extracts, one of the most precious herbs in TCM that is believed to have antiaging properties.

Zambian Jihai Agriculture Company Limited, which is involved in all-year round production of mushroom is another firm exhibiting at the event to market various products it was producing in Zambia.

Since its establishment five years ago, the firm has expanded its line of operations and apart from mushroom growing, the firm has opened other ventures such as the JCS Food Town, a center where various agricultural products are being sold not only to the Chinese nationals but local people as well.

The edible mushroom industry has for long been a poverty alleviator in Gutian county of Ningde, Fujian province.

In recent years, the county has propelled the transformation and upgrading of its edible mushroom industry, with a focus on improving cultivation conditions.

Last year, a transition away from traditional mushroom fruiting rooms to photovoltaic mushroom farms increased yields by about 20 percent, with the price per pack rising by about 1 yuan ($0.14) compared to the previous year due to higher quality, said Yu Xinkao, a local mushroom grower.

With advantages including higher production efficiency, concentrated land use and optimized safety control, the mushroom agrivoltaic project has successfully led to a multidimensional development pattern, fostering increased income for mushroom growers and local enterprises while generating power.

Zheng Guidong, deputy Party secretary of Gutian county, said eight photovoltaic mushroom growing bases have been established in the county since May 2021, constructing 450 standardized mushroom production sheds with a total investment of 370 million yuan.

"I believe that projects like the China-Kazakhstan (Lianyungang) logistics cooperation base will mushroom in the future and the prospects for cooperation between China and Central Asian countries are rosy," he said.

"I believe that projects like China-Kazakhstan (Lianyungang) logistics cooperation base will mushroom in the future and the prospects for cooperation between China and Central Asian countries are rosy," he said.

Delung produces short videos about the Deng culture, the landscape and customs of Zayu, and sells local specialities through his livestreams, such as wild Ganoderma lucidum, or lingzhi, and morel mushroom.

Policy, innovative tech-inspired investments and ecological farming create magicIn Northwest China's Shaanxi province, famous for its rich coal resources, Miaowan, a township in Tongchuan city, is now better known as "Shiitake Mushroom Town" because the edible fungus business has transformed lives and society.

Guo Xuan, a freelancer in Kunming who is studying for her postgraduate entrance exams, is fond of hiking in mountainous areas, which offer many opportunities for mushroom picking during the rainy seasons.

"For Guo, mushroom picking is a chance to get close to nature, as well as an opportunity to make new friends.

She once met a guide from Fujian province who was good at mushroom picking.

Tired of visiting crowded scenic spots during holidays, many people instead choose mushroom picking to rejuvenate themselves.

Away from the fast pace of city life, mushroom enthusiasts venture into Yunnan province to explore the hidden world of mushrooms, as travel agencies lure in visitors with various mushroom picking tourism offerings.

Known for its stunning landscapes and diverse ecosystems, Yunnan provides numerous mushroom picking destinations.

Xu Yaowei is in charge of a mushroom picking project on the app "Youyunnan".

Their main demand is for a mushroom hunting experience, focusing on easily finding mushrooms (without restrictions on mushroom types), ferns, and other specialty Yunnan mountain delicacies," Xu said.

The second route is for local and high-end customers, and includes a mushroom hunting experience (mainly edible mushrooms such as lurid bolete, tricholoma matsutake, boletus edulis), digging for polygonatum, picking wild tea, enjoying a mushroom feast on a farm, and visiting a local wild mushroom market.

All options are served with a mushroom soup base.

Many of those were exquisite dishes such as sweet fermented rice stewed fish and mushroom casserole that require a complicated cooking process.

Dozens of county-level agricultural industries such as greenhouse vegetable production in Beizhen and mushroom farming in Qingyuan Manchu autonomous county have been formed, the department said in a press release.

The county has established a cooperative for edible mushroom cultivation that includes 33 households living in poor conditions.

The edible mushroom and rice planting industries in the county require a workforce of 200-300 people per day.

Meanwhile, State-owned Air China will provide upgraded meals such as braised beef brisket with tomatoes, fried rice with mushroom and sliced chicken, and roast pork with honey sauce for in-flight meals.

State-owned Air China will provide upgraded meals such as braised beef brisket with tomatoes, fried rice with mushroom and sliced chicken and roast pork with honey sauce for in-flight meals.

"He can pick about 0.5 kg of mushrooms from every mushroom strain each time, and he can harvest from each strain four times in total," said village official Yang Xiaosheng, who introduced the mushroom business to Yu to help the family out of poverty.

The in-house mushroom business is booming in the locality.

"As most young people have gone to big cities for better-paying jobs, Yang came up with the mushroom idea to help the left-behind senior people earn some extra income.

To help with sales, the county government formed a cooperative, which not only provides the mushroom strains to the farmers but also purchases the mushrooms from them.

"Yu said he has mastered the techniques behind mushroom cultivation, and that he is confident of reaping a bigger harvest to live a better life.

ADDIS ABABA－Ethiopia and China officially launched a mushroom project, dubbed "Ethiopia 1550 Mushroom Program," which enables the East African country to develop the sector with modern technology and scientifically.

Situated on the premises of the Technology Institute of the Addis Ababa University (AAiT), the Ethiopia 1550 Mushroom Program incorporates Ethiopia's national mushroom spawn resources development center and Ethiopia's national mushroom technology training center.

A tripartite project involving the AAiT, China Aid, and the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture, the mushroom project has established a standard mushroom spawn production, preservation and technology training center that is primarily responsible for mother spawn production and technology training.

Starting on a small scale, the project is designed to be scaled up with more project sites and involving more mushroom farmers for training across the country, promoting Ethiopia's mushroom production and productivity, thereby securing improved benefits from the sector.

The program will develop five mushroom project sites in the capital city and surrounding areas to produce next grade spawns, and of the five sites two have already been built.

Speaking at the project's official opening ceremony on the premises of AAiT, Esayas Gebre-Yohannes, executive director of AAiT, noted that the program would have multifaceted benefits to Ethiopia, promoting mushroom production and productivity, creating job opportunities, as well as knowledge and technology transfer as well as research and development.

Stating that investing in improved mushroom varieties and associated modern inputs is a critical step toward increased yields, the adviser said the project would help the country address some of the critical challenges in the area of technology development it has faced in the area.

"Some of the specific challenges associated with mushroom production include the limited capacity and lack of role clarity of the different actors, the focus of the system on very few varieties, mismatch between supply and demand resulting in shortage and excess inventory, and quality issues due to inappropriate production, storage, and transport practices and facilities," he said.

Alene Admas, an industrial biotechnologist and mushroom expert at AAiT, said that the project would make a significant contribution to the development of the mushroom technology in Ethiopia.

I now prefer light flavors," she said, sharing an image of her lunch - a mixture of corn kernels, mushroom, eggs, cherry tomatoes, beef and mashed potato.

And the time and distance between any two fuel outlets could shrink substantially as they mushroom all over.

Mushroom, an IoV, or Internet of Vehicles firm, announced its latest solution utilizing "AI cloud, operating system, smart terminal and sensor" technologies to provide customized service to drivers, on Wednesday.

"Making cars smarter by technologies is our original intention, which enables the car, just like a human, 'perceive' and 'think' abilities to realize the connection between the car and the person, the environment and the service", said Zhu Lei, co-founder of Mushroom.

Mushroom was founded in November of 2017 and completed its A-round funding worth 829.25 million yuan ($120 million) in February.

By the end of August, more than 20 cities set goals to build themselves into China's "motor towns", according to the Economic Observer newspaper, and their enthusiasm has encouraged electric startups to mushroom, many of which are more interested in subsidies and favorable policies than in car making itself.

"However, after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 and bookstores started to mushroom throughout Beijing, the popularity of the book plaza in Zhongguancun started to wane," Chen said.