Qingzhen provides vocational skills to help disabled people

A vocational skills training session for disabled people opens at an ethnic handicraft workshop in Hongfenghu town. [Photo/gzqz.gov.cn]

Qingzhen -- the county-level city in Southwest China's Guizhou province -- has rolled out targeted measures focusing on providing vocational skills training for disabled people to help reduce poverty, according to local officials.

On Aug 10, the Qingzhen Disabled Persons' Federation and the Hongfenghu Disabled Persons' Federation organized vocational skills training for people with disabilities at an ethnic handicraft workshop in the local town of Hongfenghu. 

Officials said that 30 disabled trainees acquired skills -- including producing batik textile decorations, embroidery and sewing -- over a five-day course.

Trainees learn sewing skills during the five-day vocational skills training in Hongfenghu town, Qingzhen, Aug 10. [Photo/gzqz.gov.cn]

By enabling them to learn practical techniques and skills, the training aimed to promote their entrepreneurship and employment, as well as improve their productivity and general living skills, officials added.

The head of the handicraft workshop said it would hire trainees who were top performers in the training and it would also collect and market the homemade ethnic handicrafts of other trainees that met the workshop's quality requirements.

Che Weiwei contributed to this story.