The National Peasant Games have opened in China, with sporting events including the 60-metre rice-transplanting race and the tyre-pushing race.
Two months after the 2008 Olympics were staged in Beijing – the most expensive in history – China’s 750 million peasants are keeping an eye on what they consider to be the real games.
About 3,500 farmworkers are competing in the National Peasant Games, which have taken place every four years since 1988, in the southern city of Quanzhou.