A woman of the Miao ethnic group extemporizes a batik brocade with beautiful patterns, on the 2009 "Colorful Guizhou" Tourist Commodities Design Competition and Final Selection Campaign of Skillful Craftsmen in Designing Tourist Commodities, in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, November 3, 2009. The activity draws over 300 pieces of craftworks participating in the Tourist Commodities Design Competition and 270 contestants taking part in the Final Selection Campaign of Skillful Craftsmen in Designing Tourist Commodities, which features series of commodities in the range of silver ornaments, embroidery, carvings, batik, souvenir, etc. all with distinctive and typical local ethnic minorities' features and characteristics. [Xinhua]

Contestants are engrossed in stitchwork for exquisite embroidery on the 2009 "Colorful Guizhou" Tourist Commodities Design Competition and Final Selection Campaign of Skillful Craftsmen in Designing Tourist Commodities, in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, November 3, 2009. [Xinhua]