Weeks ahead of this year's Dragon Boat Festival, workers at a food production workshop under the poverty alleviation program in Taijiang County of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou Province, have been busy fulfilling 260,000 orders for locally produced Zongzi, a traditional kind of sticky rice dumplings served during the annual festival. /CFP

All of the workers come from registered impoverished households with monthly incomes ranging from 4,000 to 4,800 yuan (564.7 to 677.64 U.S. dollars). /CFP

The ingredients of these colorful Zongzi are all locally sourced. The workshop purchased the ingredients from local residents who picked the plants used to dye the Zongzi from nearby mountains. /CFP

The colorful Zongzi produced here are very popular among consumers, because they don't use chemical pigments and are naturally healthy. /CFP