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Typical entrepreneurship for people with disabilities | Liu Yueqing: Use traditional handicrafts to light up the path of employment for people with disabilities and women

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Liu Yueqing, 40, of Ping'anyu Village, Yeyuan Street, Linqu County

He is the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage project of handmade grates in Linqu County

In recent years, Liu Yueqing has inherited traditional handicrafts at the same time

Provide free technical guidance and training to local women and people with disabilities

Drive more people on the road to prosperity

Typical entrepreneurship for people with disabilities | Liu Yueqing: Use traditional handicrafts to light up the path of employment for people with disabilities and women

In 2006, when Liu Yueqing was working in a factory

Inadvertently caused second-degree disability of the right hand and loss of ability to work

Later, he worked as a light worker in a welfare enterprise

I work during the day and sell toys and handicrafts at night

Several years of part-time work and life have tempered Liu Yueqing's will

gave him the idea of starting his own business:

Passing on the skills of the older generation to make grates by hand

Typical entrepreneurship for people with disabilities | Liu Yueqing: Use traditional handicrafts to light up the path of employment for people with disabilities and women

In 2020, he established Taifeng Family Farm in Linqu County

It is mainly engaged in the production and processing of grates and the planting and sales of agricultural products

Drive the villagers to get rich together

Today, Liu Yueqing made a handmade grate

There are nearly 30 categories such as dumpling grate, ingots grate, cover mat, grate clocks and watches

Typical entrepreneurship for people with disabilities | Liu Yueqing: Use traditional handicrafts to light up the path of employment for people with disabilities and women

At Liu Yueqing's house

A grate clock is placed on the shelf, which is particularly eye-catching

The core of the handmade grate making process is:

Choose sorghum ears close to the sorghum ear, with the same thickness and color

Made from high-quality sorghum stalks

Be strong when weaving to prevent the sorghum stalks from moving back and forth

After the weaving is completed, it will be polished, repaired, etc

A perfect handmade grate to go through

Picking, selecting, rubbing, strangle, cutting, editing, repairing, polishing and other steps

Excellence is required at every step

Otherwise, the grate will be flawed

Typical entrepreneurship for people with disabilities | Liu Yueqing: Use traditional handicrafts to light up the path of employment for people with disabilities and women

As a craftsman, you must have an ingenuity

Only continuous innovation

Incorporate trendy elements

In order to make the old craft glow with new brilliance

"Now when the farm is not working, I will put handicrafts for the villagers

Let them take it home and process it, and have an extra income. ”

In order to allow more people to master the craft of handmade grates

He also provides free technical guidance and training to women and people with disabilities

At present, there are more than 20 villagers

Follow him to learn how to make a handmade grate

"In the past few years, I have also tried to use the help of live broadcasting

Let people get up close

Our traditional craftsmanship and the process of making handmade grates

Let more people fall in love with our products. ”

Now, take the fast train of e-commerce

Their handmade grate products are sold all over the country

Typical entrepreneurship for people with disabilities | Liu Yueqing: Use traditional handicrafts to light up the path of employment for people with disabilities and women

"Inherit the old craftsmanship

Drive more fathers and villagers to get rich

It is my original intention and the direction of my efforts. ”

Plans for the future

Liu Yueqing wants to build a special agricultural products exhibition hall

When the time comes, the agricultural products and handmade products of the old folks will be used

All of them are put in the exhibition hall for sale

At the same time, the farm will continue to grow

String together the integrated development chain of primary, secondary and tertiary industries

Drive more parents and villagers to get rich and live a beautiful life

Source: Weifang Financial Media

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