Bark paintings bring prosperity to villagers in Inner Mongolia

Zhao said that after 2008 she started learning to make bark paintings, which requires a lot of patience. Sometimes she spent the whole day producing a work, which she considers quite fun.

"I can earn about 3,000 yuan ($464) a month by doing bark paintings, which has improved my life a lot," Zhao said.

At present, annual sales of bark paintings in White Wolf town can reach hundreds of thousands of yuan.