"If the nuclear missiles had remained we would have used them against the very heart of America," he told the London Daily Worker in 1962.

According to the Daily Dail of September 28, retired factory worker Alberto Marcantonio, 74, grew the enormous vegetable using normal seeds and soil and fed it nothing but tap water.

In similar factories, the average daily salary for a worker is at least 150 yuan, and laborers do not need to work between November to March due to cold weather, Kong said.