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Embroidery workshop helps local poverty alleviation in SW China's Guizhou

Embroidery workshop helps local poverty alleviation in SW China's Guizhou

The 42-year-old Liu Tianxin is a native of Guizhou Province in southwest China. He lives in Liudong Village, Zhemi Town, Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. In order to seek better development opportunities, he once left his hometown to work in the Pearl River Delta of China. In 2012, he gave up the highly paid job in Guangzhou City, southeast China's Guangdong Province, and determined returned to his hometown to start a business of his craftsmanship. Considering the local ethnic customs, Liu Tianxin opened an embroidery workshop in Liudong Village, embarking on his own "Embroidery" road.

Embroidery workshop helps local poverty alleviation in SW China's Guizhou

Liu sews embroidery products at the workshop by himself. Through long-term operation, he finally explored a unique way to independently design and produce ethnic embroidery tourism products with Maonan characteristics and adapted to the market in southwest China's Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan Province, which perfectly met the diversified market needs. Photo taken on June 8, 2021 shows Liu sewing embroidery products at the embroidery workshop in Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, southwest Chian's Guizhou Province. (Xiao Wei/Guangming Picture)

Embroidery workshop helps local poverty alleviation in SW China's Guizhou

In the past eight years, Liu started as the "boss" of a small factory with 20 people, focusing on creating brands, developing markets, and training workers. At the same time, as a party member of the Communist Party of China, Liu's active entrepreneurship also promoted the local economic development. Photo taken on June 8, 2021 shows Liu (first from right) instructing workers to operate embroidery machine tools at the embroidery workshop in Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, southwest Chian's Guizhou Province. (Xiao Wei/Guangming Picture)

Embroidery workshop helps local poverty alleviation in SW China's Guizhou

With the gradual expansion of market demand and scale, the number of workers in the workshop has grown from 20 to more than 300 now. The factory has also expanded from Zhemi Town to the relocation site for poverty alleviation and resettlement, effectively driving the employment of the relocated people. Thanks to Liu's efforts, the town has achieved an organic combination of poverty alleviation through employment and relocation. Photo taken on June 8, 2021 shows Liu (first from left) discussing embroidery patterns with workers at the embroidery workshop in Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, southwest Chian's Guizhou Province. (Xiao Wei/Guangming Picture)

Embroidery workshop helps local poverty alleviation in SW China's Guizhou

The embroidery workshop has also become a characterized industry of local economic development and poverty alleviation. Photo taken on June 8, 2021 shows Liu taking photos of the finished embroidery products at the display area of the embroidery workshop in Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, southwest Chian's Guizhou Province. (Xiao Wei/Guangming Picture)

Embroidery workshop helps local poverty alleviation in SW China's Guizhou

Speaking of the next plan, Liu Tianxin said confidently that in the future, the local people will definitely embroider a better life with the skills of their own hands. Photo taken on June 8, 2021 shows workers packing the embroidery products at an embroidery production enterprise in Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, southwest Chian's Guizhou Province. (Xiao Wei/Guangming Picture)

[ Editor: WXY ]