A rice transplanting festival themed on cultural tourism was held on May 31 in a village of Jiangjiadian township, Liuhe county, Tonghua city, Northeast China's Jilin province.

The Jiangjiadian volcanic rock rice traditional planting technique is listed among the provincial intangible cultural heritage key protection projects, as a highlight of Liuhe. The county has continued to organize its rice transplanting festival since 2013, and the festival has become an important brand of local agricultural activities.

More efforts have poured into promoting the intangible cultural heritage and developing the regional economy, agricultural production and rural tourism, in a bid to realize an integrative development of signature industries, cultural tourism and intangible cultural heritage protection.

Liuhe, as the national commodity grain base county and the hometown of volcanic rock rice in China, has a total of 320,000 mu (21,333 hectares) of rice planting bases, eight organic certification enterprises, seven green organic certification enterprises, and 26 QS (production license) certification enterprises.

"Liuhe Rice" has been approved as a certified trademark of national geographical indications, becoming the representative of Jilin rice.