Across China: Embroidery fills women's pockets, lives in Inner Mongolia
24 May 2021, 13:30 GMT+10
HOHHOT, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Basking in the morning sun in a seat against the window, Liu Menglan is doing magic on clothes, stitching life-like flowers with the dexterity of her hands.
For Liu and some other women from north China's Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, the spacious embroidery studio has upended their lives - in a good way.
"I never imagined a life like this. My family earned almost 60,000 yuan (around 9,331 U.S. dollars) last year," Liu said in contentment. She is now capable of making as much as 40,000 yuan a year from embroidery products.