First ladies enjoy Chinese culture

When 60-year-old Su Huiping, a Shanghai embroidery artist, put a nearly invisible silk thread through the tiny eye of a needle, a group of distinguished observers couldn't help but marvel.

As Asia's regional leaders were busy on Wednesday with a security summit in Shanghai, Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan invited her counterparts to enjoy China's traditional arts and culture in the centuries-old Yuyuan Garden.

Along with Peng, the group of women included Azerbaijani first lady Mehriban Aliyeva; Cambodian first lady Bun Rany; Kyrgyz first lady Raisa Atambayeva; and Dariga Nursultanovna Nazarbayeva, the eldest daughter of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.