Portraits of People

Sewing my career

By Feng Xin (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-11-12 17:37

Never attending a school and learning sewing until her 20s, Jianati, from Kazak ethnic group, owns a sewing store of more than a dozen employees in Tuoli town, Tacheng area in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. She calls herself "a typical workaholic."

China Daily reporter Feng Xin takes you to take a look at Kazak sewing as well as Jianati's career path from a housewife to a business woman.

Photojournalist: Feng Xin