China during the Cultural Revolution: women workers take pleasure in contemplating the multicolour fabrics produced in a successful cotton mill, and delight especially in a bolt of red cloth. Colour lithograph after Zhao Youhua, 1975.

The textile industry relied heavily on women workers. The room in the painting is bedecked with a dazzling variety of coloured fabrics. Four workers in the Second State Cotton Mill ("Guo mian er chang") are delightedly displaying their output. The notice board shows an encouraging output increase with a red arrow ascending rapidly and constantly. It also suggests the fast progress of the industrial sector in communist China. There are further propaganda elements about the Cultural Revolution and what it means, including these workers' political tasks