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(News Network): On the eve of the 2021 Spring Festival, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Qianxi Huawu Village, Bijie City, Guizhou Province for inspection.

He walked into the homes of Miao villagers and poverty alleviation workshops, praised the ancient Miao embroidery, and urged the villagers to continue to promote rural revitalization after getting rid of poverty, and to inherit and develop the traditional ethnic culture including Miao embroidery.

After two years, how are the people living there, and how has the rural industry developed?

  Located deep in the mountains of Guizhou and at the source of the Wujiang River, Huawu Village, an ancient Miao village, has high lanterns, the fragrance of bacon, and the smell of happiness in the smoke.

Villager Zhao Yuxue is busy making rice cakes with his wife at home.

On the eve of the Spring Festival two years ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into Huawu Miao Village.

Zhao Yujiao, a villager who moved from another place, the general secretary and his family made the local traditional festival food Huangba, and urged the local cadres to actively develop rural industries to facilitate the employment of the people at home, so that the people can have income while taking care of themselves family.

  In the past two years, Huawu Village has developed rural tourism relying on the tourism resources at the source of the Wujiang River. The "three yellows" industries of cattle breeding, turmeric planting, and yellow cake processing have also gained fame through the development of rural tourism, and have become the driving force for the people in Huawu Village to become rich. Characteristic pillar industries.

Like many villagers in the village, Zhao Yuxue opened a farmhouse at home.

  Zhao Yuxue is not the only one who is employed at home.

Yang Wenli, the person in charge of the Miao embroidery poverty alleviation workshop, learned traditional Miao embroidery from an early age. After going out to work for a few years, she and her lover used all their savings of 20,000 yuan to buy a second-hand embroidery machine and returned home to start a business, and became the leader of the Miao embroidery poverty alleviation workshop in Huawu Village. people.

  Although it has been two years, she still feels full of motivation when recalling the general secretary's concern for the inheritance of the ancient Miao embroidery culture when she walked into the poverty alleviation workshop.

  With this confidence, Yang Wenli successively hired several designers to develop new Miao embroidery products, and also cooperated with a clothing company in Guangzhou to integrate Miao embroidery elements into modern clothing, and led embroiderers to develop new ways of online sales.

Over the past two years, more than 1,000 sets of orders have been completed each year, and the annual output value has exceeded 1 million yuan. More than 50 rural women have started a new life with Miao embroidery.

  Nowadays, many villages with well-developed Miao embroidery industry in Guizhou have established intangible cultural heritage exhibition halls to inherit Miao embroidery craftsmanship, and use live webcasts to attract young consumers, so that the Miao embroidery industry has flourished, and a large number of products have been sold to markets outside the province and even overseas. .

  On the eve of the Spring Festival, the Huawu Village Song and Dance Troupe spontaneously established by the villagers also ordered dozens of performance costumes from Yang Wenli's Miao embroidery workshop, preparing to welcome guests from afar.

  Under the warm winter sun, the children of the Miao family put on intricately embroidered, gorgeous and exquisite Miao embroidered costumes, sang and danced in the square, singing the happiness of this era, and dancing with the confidence of this era.

(CCTV)