In addition to making procurements related to its core business, China Eastern has also placed orders for king crabs worth $1 billion from Russia and $500 million worth of orders for salmon from Chile.

除了进行与其核心业务相关的采购外，东航还从俄罗斯订购了价值10亿美元的帝王蟹，从智利订购了价值5亿美元的三文鱼。

At a hotel restaurant in north China's Tianjin municipality, the buffet tables have been turned into a feast for the eyes, covered with beef from Australia, lobsters from Vietnam, mussels from New Zealand, soft-shell crabs from Myanmar and rice from Thailand.

天津——在中国北部天津市的一家酒店餐厅，自助餐桌上摆满了来自澳大利亚的牛肉、越南的龙虾、新西兰的贻贝、缅甸的软壳螃蟹和泰国的大米，让人大饱眼福。

The premium version of the package included a 1,800-gram king crab, Peking roast duck and fotiaoqiang, or "Buddha jumps over the wall".

该套餐的高级版包括一只1800克的帝王蟹、北京烤鸭和佛跳墙。

Plant-based food company Green Monday launched a new product series called OmniSeafood, which features "fish" and "crab meat" made from soybean and peas, in Shanghai on Aug 23.

The new series includes frozen meals containing plant-based fish fillet, crab cake and tuna, and is now being sold at their restaurant Green Common at Raffles City Changning.

The company has set up a dedicated Agritech Research Fund, launched a next-day grocery pickup service called Duo Duo Grocery, and has been engaged in harvesting local produces from mushrooms to hairy crabs.

Dazhaxie, or hairy crabs, and salty egg yolks, popular mooncake fillings, are both autumn delicacies that have also become new coffee flavors at a convenience store chain in Beijing.

They simply "borrow" aspects of the flavors from the crab and yolks to create new coffee fusion tastes.

But what I saw all over the farm was only massive hogweeds and crab grass.

Among them is a must-eat list for tourists which includes soup dumplings, or xiaolongbao, from Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant in Yuyuan Garden, mooncakes from Xing Hua Lou, and hairy crab dishes from Wang Bao He.

Earlier, it had launched such services with hairy crabs caught from East China's Yangcheng Lake during the prime season in October.

The unit unveiled standards, including products classification and packaging specifications for its fresh food such as crawfish, apple, cherry, blueberry and crabs, so as to enhance the added-value of products and reduce costs.

It has been working on the cultivation of freshwater crab and South American white shrimp via its wholly owned subsidiary Shanghai Bright Special Aquaculture Co Ltd, which was established in 2013.

By relying on Xinghua's unique advantages in agricultural products, aquatic products, and livestock and poultry breeding, Jiang's company has developed new products such as crab roe tofu, "lion's head" meatballs, fragrant fried lotus root strips and fried lotus root chips.

TIANJIN — At a hotel restaurant in North China's Tianjin municipality, the buffet tables are a feast for the eyes, covered with beef from Australia, lobsters from Vietnam, mussels from New Zealand, soft-shell crabs from Myanmar and rice from Thailand.

But now, in a strange twist of fate, Wang has become widely known in the seafood industry as the "king of king crabs".

King crabs caught in the deep sea in Russia the night before are shipped to Hunchun the next day and distributed to various regions in China, helping Wang's business to expand continuously.

In 2021, his company imported 4,260 metric tons of king crabs and other seafood products from Russia, achieving a trade value of 1.26 billion yuan ($173.7 million).

In fact, the volume of live crabs that Hunchun imports from Russia accounts for about 80 percent of China's total live crab imports from Russia, according to the local government.

They will be promoting a variety of star seafood specially selected for the Chinese market, including Norwegian salmon, shellfish and king crab.

Last year, the company harvested 5 million kilograms of oysters, 2 million kg of scallops, 400,000 kg of trepang (a kind of sea cucumber) and 100,000 kg of sea urchins, fish, crabs and other seafood.

The list includes industrial components such as pumps, certain car parts, chemicals, motorcycles, backpacks, crab meat and other consumer goods.

Traditional foods, such as mooncakes and hairy crabs, showed strong sales growth for the upcoming National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, according to a new report released by JD Daojia, the on-demand retail platform of Dada Group.

In addition, hairy crabs are in great demand for Chinese consumers.

According to JD Daojia, sales of hairy crabs increased by 80 percent from last year, while sales of yogurt increased by 450 percent year-on-year, blended oil increased by 210 percent, and imported candy and chocolate increased by 170 percent.

"There is one homestay operator who specializes in crab farming, and he can weigh crabs by hand.

"We noted a strong interest among many Chinese businesses and consumers in Norwegian seafood products such as salmon, Arctic cod, cold-water prawns, red king crab and etc," he said.

It yields over 4,000 metric tons of various aquatic products annually, including grass carp, freshwater shrimp and crab.

"Last year, we released 36 million crabs and started harvesting in August," said Yuan Jianhui, in charge of the crab breeding base.

In Kuqa, Xinjiang, crabs cultured at a reservoir were launched in the market about half a month in advance, thanks to abundant rainfall.

With water from the snowy mountains, lush aquatic plants and rich plankton and crabs introduced from the coastal city of Dalian, Liaoning province, have grown well in Xinjiang.

"I have been farming crabs in Kuqa for more than 10 years and the products have been of high quality and favored by consumers.

The crabs grow naturally and there isn't any human intervention," said Liu Shifang, a breeder in Kuqa.

- This year's harvest season of China's highly sought-after freshwater crabs kicked off Monday on the Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province.

A total of about 11,000 tons of the tasty and pricy mitten crab are expected to be harvested, 1,600 tons more than that of last year, according to Gu Donghua, deputy head of the Suzhou municipal bureau of agriculture and rural affairs.

The crabs have grown bigger this year as the city saw fewer high-temperature days, received adequate rainfall and was less affected by typhoons, creating a suitable breeding environment for the crabs, said Xu Hao, a local crab farmer.

A ceremony was held on Monday in Shajiabang township of Changshu city administered by Suzhou to commence the harvest, with this year's Yangcheng Lake crab anti-counterfeiting label released to facilitate authenticity checks.

Chinese people have a custom of eating crabs in autumn when the meat is at its best.

Crabs are considered auspicious as the Chinese word for crab is "xie," which is pronounced the same as the Chinese word for "thanks. "

And in the city of Panjin, famous for its rice and crabs, journalists strolled along Red Beach, which is known for its landscape featuring the red plant Suaeda salsa.

Data from online discounter Pinduoduo showed that the turnover of domestic sea cucumbers, shrimps, swimming crabs, freshwater fish and seafood gift boxes on its online marketplace doubled on Thursday compared with that of Wednesday.

The transaction volume of large yellow croakers and freshwater crabs, such as hairy crabs, skyrocketed 148 percent and 730 percent, respectively, during the period, according to Pinduoduo.

Song Wei, a primary school teacher in Beijing and the mother of a 6-year-old boy, said she bought 2 kilograms of freshly caught swimming crabs on Friday on JD.

"These crabs are from Zhoushan, Zhejiang province, and very fresh.

He said he will continue to explore the cultural resources related to mangrove forests and create pleasant, interesting and representative cultural images based on fiddler crabs and egrets in the mangrove forests.

Hoang Ha, owner of seafood restaurant Lang Ghe Bien (Sea Crab Village) in the central city of Da Nang, said on Tuesday that in preparing to welcome back Chinese tourists, he was recruiting more staff, and building an agarwood shop adjacent to the restaurant.

They don't hesitate to spend a lot on lobsters or crabs.

At Hema Fresh, for example, a chicken soup made of Yunnan-raised chicken and locally grown mushrooms and a dish mixing roe-rich crabs with eight-treasure rice pudding have both seen a sharp rise in sales in January compared with the month before, according to the company.

The sizzling stir-fried crab with special Thai sauce, mixing spicy, sweet, salty and sour flavors, is also a pleasure for diners.

The hybrid field can accommodate more water, making it possible to breed fish, shrimp and crabs in the same paddy.

Local restaurant chain Shanghai Min aims to pamper diners visiting the Disneytown with traditional sautéed shrimp, noodles mixed with scallion, oil and soy sauce, as well as minced crab meat and bean curd.

Autumn is hairy crab harvesting season, especially in the Yangtze River Delta.

Along the shores of Yangcheng Lake near Shanghai, fine-dining restaurants and local eateries are scrambling to roll out pricey crab menus.

But experts estimate a lion's share of the crabs on the market claiming to be from Yangcheng Lake－a premier crab-rearing region－is essentially dumped from other areas around harvest season and then pulled out for consumption.

The practice is so widespread that it's even given rise to the phrase "bathing crabs".

To tackle the problem, e-commerce company Pinduoduo has formed an alliance with the crab industry and authorities in the delta region to help different geographical locations build their brands and improve market access to consumers through its online platforms.

Specifically, direct sourcing from tens of thousands of merchants can help track the origins of crabs, and it will work with the Jiangsu Fresh Water Aquatic Products Research Institute to set industry standards for online sales of hairy crabs.

The company also pledged to nurture 100 leading e-commerce merchants and expand the online market for hairy crabs by 20 billion yuan ($2.97 billion) within five years.

Pengze is now Jiangxi's largest producer of crayfish and crabs.

Besides, it has set up Jiangxi Pengze Crayfish and Crabs Technology Yard, which invited top experts in aquatic products and their teams of graduate students for technological research.

First class and business class at China Eastern recently introduced dishes such as peeled shrimp, ribs and pork balls with crab sauce.

Xu Wenjun, 28, who writes software code in Beijing, planned a whirlwind tour with his girlfriend, taking in modern art galleries in Shanghai, classical gardens in nearby Suzhou and a feast of crabs and fish beside Taihu Lake.

Imported wine, honey, and king crabs from Chile were made available to Chinese shoppers at affordable prices.

Panjin in Northeast China's Liaoning province is co-developing its crab industry and rice industry, in an effort to raise production capacity and promote rural economic prosperity and peasant wealth in the region.

Data from the Panjin River Crab Association showed that amid challenges brought by COVID-19, in the first half of this year, Panjin's river crab exporting firms successfully completed all foreign order contracts, and exported a total of 2,620 metric tons of river crabs.

Zhang Yuman, head of the Panjin River Crab Association, said that the city produces an average of 20,000 tons of river crabs every year, and 4,000 tons of them are exported to South Korea.

River crab exports drive the development of the city's crab industry.

It spurs the market price of river crabs, thus ensuring the increase of crab farmers' income, he said.

The development of the crab industry also boosted the city's rice industry development.

Meanwhile, the crab aquaculture area was 106,666 hectares, with an output of 72,000 tons, ranking first among the prefecture-level cities in the country, it showed.

Li Xiaodong, known as the "king of crabs", who first came up with the idea of raising crabs and rice together, said that the combination realizes the effect of "one plus one is greater than two".

"River crabs loosen soil, weed the field, catch insects and fertilize rice, while rice can purify the environment and provide shelter for river crabs," he said.

In the future, Panjin said that it will continue to use its ecological advantages to co-develop the crab and rice industry, build up its own brand, increase the added value of agricultural products, and promote the transformation and upgrade of local agriculture.

"With a greater variety of imported seafood flooding into China, consumers are able to taste a wide range of products as diverse as king crab from Russia, shrimp from South America, salmon from Norway and sea cucumber from the North Atlantic.

QINGDAO, Shandong - From Ecuadorian shrimp to Russian king crab, getting a taste of the ocean has never been easier these days for many Chinese.

Alaskan crab, French lobster, Argentine beef, Chilean cherries, fresh milk from Australia … these are just some of the items that are now popular choices for special family dinners during the festival season.

A premium version of the brunch, complete with Alaskan king crab, is priced 1,200 yuan.

Besides, Maine lobsters, Alaska crabs and California squid have seen their prices rise in the China market, and this has benefitted seafood exporters of other countries.

Meanwhile, the Thai Ministry of Commerce said the country's seafood exporters, especially those dealing in fresh and frozen shrimp and crab, have benefitted from the shift in the China market's demand from the US to Thailand.

Among other things, it enables the model to do a smooth "crab walk".

A list of this year's nominees for model craftsmen in Conghua included planters, flower growers and crab raisers.