Kites are helping to drive the economic development in Weifang, East China's Shandong province.

As a kind of creative cultural product, kites have diversified categories, creating jobs for about 80,000 employees in over 600 kite related enterprises in Weifang.

With the annual sales exceeding 2 billion yuan ($281.5 million), kites in Weifang are exported to more than 50 countries and regions.

Weifang kite-making skills were included in the first batch of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage representative projects list in 2006.

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