Portraits of people working for poverty alleviation in China's Gansu

Photo taken on Aug. 26, 2019 shows a man holding "Qula", residue of yak milk after ghee making, at a trading center in Hezuo City, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of northwest China's Gansu Province. Official data showed that China lifted 13.86 million people in rural areas out of poverty in 2018, with the number of impoverished rural residents dropping from 98.99 million in late 2012 to 16.6 million by the end of last year. (Xinhua/Chen Junqing)