Workers make wicker baskets at a handknitting cooperative in Guangling County of Datong, north China's Shanxi Province, Aug. 23, 2018. The cooperative has offered job opportunities to nearly a thousand impoverished residents. In recent years, local authorities of Guangling have taken an industry-based approach towards poverty relief. By now, industries for poverty-relief purposes have been set up in the county's 43 impoverished villages, with over 2,000 target households achieving an average increase of 15,000 yuan (2,194 U.S. dollars) in annual income. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)
