Yang Mei (L) and a worker make tea at a workshop of her tea manufacturing company in Danzhai County of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Oct. 15, 2018. Yang Mei, 39, is a tea planter and producer in the county. After finishing her study in forestry in 2,000, Yang returned home and learned from her father Guirong the techniques of tea planting and production. With her family's help, she planted a 200 mu (about 13 hectares) of tea garden. Since 2008 when Yang set up a tea company integrating tea planting, picking, producing and selling, she has taken various measures, including investing in tea-related equipment, improving tea planting and producing techniques, and varying tea species, to broaden market and increase income. Her company's products have been sold to foreign countries such as the U.K., the U.S and Russia. In 2017, Yang's tea company reached a long-team cooperation deal with tea gardens at other towns of the county to help in local poverty alleviation. By now, Yang has planted more than 2,000 mu (about 133 hectares) of tea and employed over 1,000 workers, 900 of whom are seasonally-employed impoverished farmers who can make over 2,000 yuan (about 289 U.S. dollars) every year here. (Photo by Yang Wukui/Xinhua)