Marigolds bloom across Shache County in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on August 19. (Photo: Shi Jiamin; compiled by Song Kexin)

Since 2012, Chenguang Biotech Group, a company based in Handan, North China's Hebei Province, has been working with households to cultivate marigolds in Xinjiang. The business has helped lift marigold farmers out of poverty with a new contract farming mode. (Photo: Shi Jiamin; compiled by Song Kexin)

Marigolds are a backbone of the county economy in this year's rural revitalization strategy. (Photo: Shi Jiamin; compiled by Song Kexin)

The 10,000 hectares of marigold fields in Shache County are expected to produce 350,000 tons of marigolds this year and a minimum extra 22,500 yuan in earnings per hectare for farmers. (Photo: Shi Jiamin; compiled by Song Kexin)