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The
Museum of Chinese Agriculture, located in the National
Agricultural Exhibition Center on the eastern section
of the 3rd Ring Road, covers the history of ancient Chinese
agricultural technology, contemporary agricultural resources
and aquatic resources.
Exhibits
in the Hall of the History of Ancient Chinese Agriculture
Technology include Neolithic Age artifacts (a 6,900-year-old
bone spade) and Han Dynasty iron hoe and sickle. The Hall
of Agricultural Resources introduces crops, trees, wild
animals and insects and tropical landscape. The aquariums
in the Hall of Aquatic Resources present the famous carp
of the Yellow River, chum salmon from the northeast ands
sturgeon from Xinjiang.
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