Straw crafts in Ningbo enjoys a high reputation. 1925, French businessman yongxing foreign firm learned that women in eastern Zhejiang are ingenious and good at weaving straw hats, so he bought Hypericum from the Philippines and distributed it to women in the western suburbs of Ningbo and the Changhe River in Cixi. Sure enough, the golden straw hat is as light as a cloud and as bright as snow, which meets the needs of the international market. Therefore, domestic businessmen and foreign businessmen compete for mass distribution and export. After liberation, a straw hat processing factory was established in Changhe Township, Cixi, the hometown of leather weaving. 1954, renamed cixi jinsicao factory. Most of them organize family sideline businesses to do extra work, and about 70 thousand people nearby are engaged in straw hat weaving all the year round. There are also many women in Yinxian and the suburbs of Ningbo who weave golden silk straw hats as their household sideline. Ningbo is rich in straw resources, including mat grass, rice straw, salty grass, cattail grass, Chinese alpine rush, corn husk and so on. Local people have always had traditional weaving skills, besides straw hats, they can also weave grass baskets, handbags, grass fans, grass slippers, grass tea mats and other patterns. (Ningbo)