Farmers are pictured at work in a wheat field as heavy machinery (rear) provides efficient mechanical assistance during the harvesting of a wheat crop on the outskirts of Beijing June 22. Officials say that China's wheat output for 1997 will be 116 million tonnes, 5.1 million tonnes up on 1996, keeping year-to-end-August 1997, to 4.8 mllion tonnes.

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