Xinhua pictures of the year 2018

Aerial photo taken on April 25, 2018 shows Zou Daying together with employees drying chillies in her factory in Shangfu Town of Fengxin County, east China's Jiangxi Province. In 2013, 60-year-old Zou started up her business to produce condiments including chilli sauce following her retirement from a community. Over one million bottles of condiments were sold in 2017. Zou employed impoverished villagers in priority in her company and also set up a chilli growing cooperative to help them get ride of poverty. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)