To give a boost to farmer artists,the Ministry of Culture and five other units are set to publish collections of literature works, calligraphy, paintings, and photography created by farmer artists from around the country.

Nine farmer writers attended the press conference for the release of the publications. Over the past year, the project has featured a hundred farmer writers and has seen the publication of a hundred collections featuring farmers' art.

The organizing committee received nearly a hundred novels and plays, over a thousand poems, and thousands of works of calligraphy, carvings as well as photographic works, all created by farmers. Fourteen novels, a hundred poems, fifty works of prose and a hundred paper cuttings are featured in the first batch of publications which consist of twenty albums.

(CCTV January 9, 2009)