Sunflowers, tourism in bloom at Shandong village

More than 60,000 sunflowers are blooming in the fields in Qilipu village of Huaiyin district in Jinan, Shandong province. Currently, those sunflowers are in their full blossoming period, and will stay in that phase until mid- to late August. By planting the sunflowers, the village hopes not only to attract visitors, but also enhance the village's popularity into a rural leisure tourism destination.