The Third Qinghai Embroidery Contest opened in Xining, capital city of Northwest China's Qinghai Province on September 26.
The contest aimed to showcase the protection, inheritance and development of Qinghai Embroidery,
promote the embroidery industry and explore a new way of protecting and passing on the Yellow River art.
Qinghai Embroidery is a traditional folk craft made by women of ethnic groups, such as Han, Tibetan, Hui, Tu, Mongolian and Salar, in Qinghai Province. A total of 800 women embroiderers from all over the province participated in the contest.
A variety of Qinghai embroidery crafts were also displayed during the event. Embroidery inheritors and enterprises from provinces of Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong and Ningxia Hui and Inner Mongolia autonomous regions attended the exhibition.
Figures show that there are about 300,000 people engaged in embroidery industry in Qinghai. Different types of folk embroidery of ethnic groups in the province have been included in the lists of the national and provincial intangible cultural heritage.
In recent years, many measures have been taken to encourage embroiderers to join Qinghai embroidery industry. Farmers, family workshops and embroidery enterprises and associations have cooperated to develop the embroidery industry.
"There are more participants in this year's contest, with more social concern and greater influence," said Chen Ruifeng, a member of the standing committee and director of the publicity department of the CPC Qinghai Provincial Committee. "Women embroiderers from all ethnic groups inherit traditional culture, increase their income and change their lives through traditional handicraft-making skills."
Chen hoped that the event will help promote the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, the creative transformation and innovative development of the embroidery industry as well as rural revitalization.
(Source: chinanews.com/Translated and edited by Women of China)