A worker at Cao Xueqin Enterprise Group tends pots of a special vintage wine destined to celebrate next year's handover of Hong Kong.
Cao Xueqin will deliver 1,997 pots of its '1997 celebration wine' to the territory by the day of the handover.
The move is a major promotional coup for the hitherto obscure wine-maker from Tangshan in China's northeast.
Beijing was so concerned about firms cashing in on the handover that in December it cancelled all '1997' trademarks.
This has not stopped Cao Xueqin winning the state's blessing for its gift. Official mouthpiece Xinhua dubbed it 'a hearty congratulation sent by the mother country to Hong Kong'.
The first pot of the sorghum-based wine will be auctioned for charity with the rest distributed free to major hotels.