Farmers are putting the end of the summertime to good use, by drying grapes in temperatures of up to 40 degrees Celsius in Turpan, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. /Xinhua Photo

Turpan has a long tradition of growing high-quality grapes and other fruits, thanks to its hot and dry summer and their ancient irrigation system. /Xinhua Photo

As a major grape production base, it produced about one million tons of grapes last year. /Xinhua Photo

At the same time, China overtook France to become the country with the second largest vineyard area in the world. It overtook Spain in 2015. /Xinhua Photo