Barbershops head new employment plan for women

This year, the office of the Women's Federation in Wushi, a State-designated poverty-stricken county in the south of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, started a program to help 46 impoverished women open barbershops in their home villages.

The program will help the women to start their own businesses and promote modern lifestyles in poverty-stricken villages, said Wang Yuzhu, deputy head of the federation's office.

Anargul Sultan, a member of the Uygur ethnic group from Inat village in Wushi, used to live by farming. Recently, she opened the first barbershop in her village.