摘要
As the coastal town of Humen urbanizes, its softshell turtle industry is losing its appeal Business is slow in the turtle industry.Seventy-year-old Chen Zhiman, who began farming softshell turtles in 1992,ceased all operations in 2012. His farm in Humen, a coastal town in southern China’s Guangdong province, bears no trace of the million or so softshell turtles, or bie (鳖), that he raised for over 20 years.