Reality show turns young artists into influential agri-preneurs
China DailyFour of the Shigeqintian farming youths — Chen Shaoxi, Zhao Yibo, Zhuo Yuan, and He Haonan, guide a group of journalists to visit their farm at Houdoumen in Sanlian village, Xihu district of Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang province, on April 14, 2024. As Western audiences are eagerly awaiting the new season of Clarkson's Farm, a growing number of Chinese audiences are paying close attention to the day-to-day goings-on at a farm in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, where Become a Farmer Season 2, a hit farming-focused reality show available for streaming on iQIYI, is being made. A media tour in mid-April organized by the show's creators, iQIYI and Blue Sky Media, took dozens of journalists to 58 Houdoumen in Sanlian village, Sandun township of Xihu district, where the 10 young men farm. The golden rapeseed flowers are packed out in the field farmed by Shigeqintian at Sanlian village, Xihu distirct of Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang province, on April 14, 2024.