Yi embroidery lifts ethnic minority people out of poverty

Yongren Yi embroidery has a history of over one thousand years. Every year, 200,000 gorgeous embroidery works are made by women of Yi ethnic group from the Chuxiong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan province.

These Yi embroidery works are sold to the U.S., South Korea, Beijing and Shanghai, with annual sales of over 10 million yuan. Each member of the embroidery workshop has an annual income of nearly 30,000 yuan.

In recent years, Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, Yi embroidery school, Yi embroidery association as well as Yi embroidery cooperative workshops have been set up in Yongren county to help ethnic monitory women and to promote their social and economic development.