Qianjiang, a district in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, in recent years has implemented poverty-alleviation projects, while it has devoted much effort to developing traditional crafts and rural tourism. Seen here, an employee with a Xilankapu-making workshop, in a village in Qianjiang, weaves an item. Xilankapu, also known as Tujia brocade, is an original art form by the people of the Tujia ethnic group. The craft is on the list of China's intangible cultural heritage. The workshop employs craftspeople to provide training to left-behind women (whose husbands have left home to work elsewhere) and poverty-stricken women (in Qianjiang), to help them improve their craft-making skills. As a result, many women have attained wealth by creating Xilankapu items.

(Women of China English Monthly March 2020 issue)