Targeted Poverty Alleviation in Hunan: Villagers become painters

　　【精准扶贫在三湘】浏阳市小河乡农民拿起画笔 铸就“山水画乡”

　　Targeted Poverty Alleviation in Hunan: Villagers become painters with salary of about 3,000 yuan/month

2016年以来，浏阳市小河乡政府借助独特的自然风光，建设农村画室、培养农民画师，培育装饰画产业，助力脱贫攻坚。村民免费学习画画，学成后按月拿工资，月收入近3000元，这份工作吸引了大量村民。

　　Since 2016, Xiaohe township government of Liuyang City, Hunan, China has established rural painting studios and trained villagers to paint hometown landscape, and developed the decorative picture industry. This is to foster targeted poverty alleviation. Villagers can learn painting for free of charge, and then work for painting studios. They can earn about 3,000 yuan/month.

“不要小看这个流水线上的产品，其市场潜力是非常大的。”长沙艺彰画廊负责人练亿章说，今年以来该画廊已收购作品5万幅，有些还销往韩国、日本、新加坡和欧洲等海外市场。“虽谈不上是艺术作品，但用于一般的家庭、酒店等场所的装饰还是很有市场的。”他说，去年小河乡一年所有的画画总销售额就超过100多万。

　　The rural decorative painting has great market potential. A painting studio has purchased 50,000 works this year, some of which are sold to the Republic of Korea, Japan, Singapore and Europe. The total sales volume of decorative painting of Xiaohe town in 2017 exceeded 1 million yuan.

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　　【精准扶贫在三湘】农民放下锄头拿起画笔 浏阳市小河乡特色产业推动精准扶贫