Shoemaking Workers Resume Production, Fight Against Poverty in C China's Henan

Women workers make footwear at a poverty alleviation workshop in a village of Suixian County, Central China's Henan Province, on April 9. [Xinhua/Zhang Haoran]

In recent years, a string of plants and workshops supporting shoe manufacturing has settled in Suixian County, Central China's Henan Province, to help local impoverished villagers increase their income. The workshops have resumed production in an orderly manner on the basis that proper novel coronavirus (COVID-19) prevention and control measures are implemented.  

A female worker wearing a protective mask is at work in a shoemaking workshop in a village of Suixian County, Central China's Henan Province, on April 9. [Xinhua/Zhang Haoran]

A woman works in a shoemaking workshop in a village of Suixian County, Central China's Henan Province, on April 9. [Xinhua/Zhang Haoran]

(Source: Xinhua/Translated and edited by Women of China)