The Launch of 2020 National Joint Planting of Seawater rice in Qingdao and Weifang, Shandong Province, Qinghai Province and Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. The launch of the seawater rice was led by Yuan Longping, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and his team. This year the national sea rice plantation area will be expanded to 16,400 acres, the team also carried out saline soil transformation of 164,000 acres, and strive to lay out 1.64 million acres of saline land transformation in the country, in order to eventually transform 16.4 million acres nationwide.