About 30 km west of Nyingchi, a city in Tibet Autonomous Region, is a strawberry greenhouse base. From the field to the shelf, it only takes half an hour for the fresh and perfect-looking strawberries to enter the homes of those who live on the roof of the world. "It would all be impossible without the Sichuan-Tibet highway," said Dobrgyal, Party chief of Jiuba Village.
Early in the morning, Yangzom, 39, entered her greenhouse and began picking strawberries. Then she took a bus to sell them in the nearby city market. She sold all her strawberries -- 15 baskets weighing a total 70 kg, in just a few hours, making over 2,000 yuan (290 U.S. dollars).
"You have to work almost all day, except at noon when the sun is out, and the temperature is too high in the greenhouse," she said. "But compared with highland barley, I earn much more from selling strawberries."
She said a kilo of strawberries sells for 60 to 80 yuan. She also opens the greenhouse to the public, with the price for self-picked strawberries set at 100 yuan per kilo.
Last year, her two greenhouses brought the family nearly 80,000 yuan.