Miao Embroidery Brings Prosperity to Rural Women in SW China's Yunnan

Women in traditional costume embroidered on products in a folk product cooperative, in Pingbian Miao Autonomous County, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, on April 28. [Xinhua/Liang Zhiqiang]

Small women's poverty alleviation workshops, with a mode of cooperative, have been established in Pingbian Miao Autonomous County, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, in recent years. The poverty alleviation workshops have developed paintings, embroideries and other cultural and creative products with the elements of Miao ethnic group. It provided job opportunities to left-behind women, whose husbands have migrated to other places for work, at the doorstep.

In 2019, nearly 300 local women were trained with embroidery skills, and they earned a monthly income of about 4,000 yuan (US $565.3) through making embroideries in the Miao embroidery poverty alleviation workshops in the county.

A woman embroiderer (R) demonstrates a handmade product in a folk product cooperative in Pingbian Miao Autonomous County, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, on April 28. [Xinhua/Liang Zhiqiang]

A woman embroiderer sews a product with the elements of Miao ethnic group in a folk product cooperative in Pingbian Miao Autonomous County, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, on April 28. [Xinhua/Liang Zhiqiang]

(Source: Xinhua/Translated and edited by Women of China)