China's Heilongjiang Province (13 images)

A Chinese Navy gunboat keeps watch over the waters of the Songhua River, which serves as a natural border between China and Russia (background), in Fuyuan, a frontier town in China's northern Heilongjiang Province on August 4, 2013. UPI/Stephen Shaver

A buyer looks at several varieties of mushrooms being organically grown on a farm in Fujin, a frontier town in China's northern Heilongjiang Province on August 3, 2013. Organic food products are finding a welcome home among the country's urban dwellers as national food scare after food scare continue to plague the country. UPI/Stephen Shaver

Journalists look at a farm-raised sturgeon to be sold at a local market in Fuyuan, a frontier town in China's northern Heilongjiang Province on August 4, 2013. Wild sturgeons, prized for their fish eggs in making caviar, are protected by law due to decades of overfishing. UPI/Stephen Shaver

Northern China ethnic minority goat herders take their animals to the Songhua River and its wetlands, which serves as a natural border between China and Russia (background), in Fuyuan, a frontier town in China's northern Heilongjiang Province on August 4, 2013. China's ethnic minorities and their cultures are vanishing as development and urbanization pressures compete with their ability to sustain their traditional ways of life. UPI/Stephen Shaver