Your current location:HOME >business >Wondrous Xinjiang: Women Entrepreneurs Embroider Golden Future for Rural Women 正文
TIME:2024-06-03 18:57:51 Source: Internet compilationEdit:business
Contact Us HomeNewsHighlightACWF NewsSocietyWom
URUMQI, May 23 (Xinhua) — Compared with running her embroidery workshop covering 1,500 square meters, Brkez Saymu is more proud that she helps nearly 200 rural women enrich themselves with their own skills.
In 2002, the then 32-year-old businesswoman opened an embroidery shop in Kashgar Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. After enjoying initial success, she expanded her business and set up a rural cooperative a year later.
"Since I made money out of the business, I'd like to build the cooperative and mobilize the women in our village to join me," she said. "They all have the embroidery skills but never thought they could make money from them. I wanted to offer them an opportunity."
Currently, the workshop of her cooperative, which mainly produces handicrafts and other embroidery products, has nearly 200 women embroiderers and more than 50 sets of equipment.
Brkez Saymu is not alone. After nearly 10 years of development, the company founded by Bahguli Olaltei, another women entrepreneur from Altay Prefecture, has 12 workshops along with more than 6,800 professional embroiderers.
"My mother is a famous embroiderer in our village, so influenced by her, I liked embroidery since I was a kid," she said. "I had already mastered basic skills of making clothing and tapestries at the age of 15."
Olaltei's company provides free training for local rural women embroiderers to help them enhance their skills. They can also do their work at home for their own convenience.
As a perfectionist, Olaltei has never ceased to seek better embroidery skills since starting her business. She goes to Beijing, Hangzhou and other localities to learn the latest skills each year, aiming to better combine traditional Xinjiang embroidery with modern craftsmanship.
"Only by constantly learning can we design better works," she said.
In recent years, Xinjiang's culture and tourism and other departments have adopted a slew of measures, including advancing the protection of embroidery production and training of embroidery inheritors, to attract more rural women embroiderers and help them increase their income.
(Source: Xinhua)
32.3KPlease understand that womenofchina.cn,a non-profit, information-communication website, cannot reach every writer before using articles and images. For copyright issues, please contact us by emailing: [email protected]. The articles published and opinions expressed on this website represent the opinions of writers and are not necessarily shared by womenofchina.cn.
Todd Blanche says he was shocked Donald Trump took the verdict with 'solemness'2024-06-03 18:39
Ramírez leads late scoring barrage, Guardians deal Rangers their season2024-06-03 18:36
Risks of handcuffing someone facedown long known; people die when police training fails to keep up2024-06-03 18:35
2 French prison officers killed and 3 injured in an attack on a prison van in Normandy2024-06-03 18:16
Maya Jama and Leonardo DiCaprio 'spark noise complaint at swanky London hotel as star2024-06-03 18:08
Jared Goff agrees $212MILLION, four2024-06-03 17:18
Day care costs: With Congress reducing support, states step in to help families2024-06-03 17:17
Gruesome horror movie scene voted 'most shocking' film opening in history by movie buffs2024-06-03 17:00
Scaffolding and a skip are sighted at tatty Windsor Royal Lodge2024-06-03 16:55
Salma Hayek stuns in a black off2024-06-03 16:46
How Hunter Biden has come to face jurors on federal gun charges2024-06-03 18:46
What Joan Rivers would have REALLY said about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce2024-06-03 18:00
Austrian court says convicted rapist Josef Fritzl can be moved to prison from psychiatric detention2024-06-03 17:29
Waymo is latest company under investigation for autonomous or partially automated technology2024-06-03 17:28
A man's body recovered from waters off a Greek beach with barbell attached2024-06-03 17:16
I am a Cher superfan2024-06-03 17:08
Bangladesh has faith in Taskin but not in Saifuddin for T20 World Cup squad2024-06-03 16:50
Antiques Roadshow guest is left stunned at his 'over the top' belt buckle's shocking real price2024-06-03 16:43
Water begins to flow again in downtown Atlanta after outage that began Friday2024-06-03 16:39
Kylie Jenner shows off her toned abs in cropped T2024-06-03 16:35