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

Photo taken on Aug. 28, 2019 shows villager Wu Yulin (L) visited by a village cadre at his home at a settlement area for villagers living in remote mountainous areas in Baituyao Village, Linxia Hui 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)