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Building Yi embroidery into a booming industry
绣娘金瑞瑞:让“指尖艺术”转化为“指尖经济”
As a deputy (代表) to the 14th National People’s Congress (全国人民代表大会), Jin Ruirui, 33, 1 ___________(wear) a traditional Yi costume and brought Yi embroidery (彝绣) to this year’s two sessions (两会). Jin is an inheritor (传承人) of the Yi embroidery of Chuxiong Yi autonomous prefecture (自治州) , Southwest China’s Yunnan province. She has brought 2 _______________(propose) for developing the local embroidery industry and promoting women’s employment.
Jin was among the first group of college students in her village, 3 _______instead of working in big cities, she chose to come back to her hometown to set up her own Yi embroidery company. “My mother raised me with the money she made 4 ________an embroiderer. I want to carry on her skills and help more embroiderers 5 __________are just like my mother – they might not get much education, but they know well about our local culture,” said Jin.
Jin went on field trips to many local villages and found that there were many left-behind children with their parents 6 _____________(work) far away in big cities. “Think about 7 _________good it will be if embroidery can bring them enough money so that they can work at home and stay together with their children,” Jin said, remembering how she started her career.
With the support from the local government and the hard work of people like Jin, Yi embroidery has become a growing industry. They train embroiderers and hire designers 8 ____________(make) the embroidery pieces more trendy (时髦的). They hold fashion shows promoting Yi costumes in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai and do business with other provinces and even foreign countries. Jin just got an export order of 6,500 Yi embroidered costumes to the UK last month.
During the past 10 years, more than 60,000 Yi women in Chuxiong 9 ____________(take) part in the local Yi embroidery industry. Their average 10___________(month) income grew from about 500 yuan to around 3