Traditional crafts help Xinjiang hold up people's livelihood industry

In 2012, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region listed the implementation of the People's Livelihood Industry Promotion Plan as one of the 90 key livelihood projects, and arranged special funds for the development of the people's livelihood industry in accordance with “small commodities, large markets, access to jobs, and getting rich quickly”. Within the district, 6 demonstration bases and key demonstration projects for people's livelihood were identified.

Kazanqi Folk Tourist Area has been listed in the first batch of people's livelihood industry demonstration bases in Xinjiang by virtue of handicrafts such as iron arts, leather goods, sand paintings, embroidery, and traditional musical instruments. The inhabitants, Asya Abril, sold the special arts and crafts alone and could earn more than 20,000 yuan a year.

Located in the southeast old part of Yining city, Kazanqi Folk Tourist Area is a large-scale original ecological humanities tourism area with unique culture and people's feelings. With the arrival of the tourist season, hundreds of tourists come to visit each day. Buy features crafts.

According to statistics, there are currently more than 36,800 handicraft enterprises in Xinjiang, employing 428,000 people and annual sales of nearly 6 billion yuan.