Xinjiang Story: In Xinjiang, young designer gives new life to ancient mulberry paper

URUMQI, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- At 24, Muyasser Aihematitoheti could have stayed in the city to build a career in commercial design, but she returned to her hometown in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to work with handmade mulberry bark paper that has endured for more than a millennium.

Known locally as mulberry bark paper, the craft is a national-level intangible cultural heritage. Made by hand in