0551 - Nanking City: Ancient And New. Producing velvet at Nanking's Yikuang...Back

Nanking City: Ancient And New. Producing velvet at Nanking's Yikuang Silk Mill. Production of velvet in this east China city dates back several hundred years. The present output of velvet at the mill is over 20 times more than that of 1965, the year before the Cultural Revolution.