Creative cultural products based on kites are pictured at a kite workshop in the Hanting district of Weifang, East China's Shandong province, Oct 14, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]

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 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.

A worker makes the skeleton of a kite, at a kite workshop in Hanting district of Weifang, East China's Shandong province, Oct 14, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]

A miniature kite is pictured at a kite workshop in Hanting district of Weifang, East China's Shandong province, Oct 14, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]

Guo Hongli, a kite-making inheritor, showcases a traditional dragon-shaped kite in the Hanting district of Weifang, East China's Shandong province, Oct 14, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua]