Stitching a better future

With a passion for Yi embroidery, entrepreneur spreads the heritage while teaching skills to other women, giving them a sense of confidence and independence, Yang Feiyue reports.

In late February, as winter still clung to the mountains of Mabian, an Yi autonomous county in southwestern Sichuan province, Qiaojin Shuangmei carefully packed 15 sets of Yi embroidery for her trip to Beijing.

Unlike previous business trips, she spent weeks deciding what to pack into her luggage.