Chinese experts blaze trail in cultivating lilacs on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
STORY: Chinese experts blaze trail in cultivating lilacs on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
DATELINE: May 7, 2022
LENGTH: 00:01:25
LOCATION: XINING, China
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT
SHOTLIST:
1. various of lilacs
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHANG JINMEI, Director of Xining forestry science research center
STORYLINE:
Lilacs with lush branches and long flowering period are in full bloom in the plateau city of Xining, northwest China's Qinghai Province.
It's inseparable from the efforts of Zhang Jinmei, director of the Xining forestry science research center, and her team.
In 1998, Zhang Jinmei began to cultivate all kinds of lilac saplings.
Over the years, Xining has built the only one national lilac germplasm resources bank, with the help of a group of experts including Zhang, by conducting lilac resources investigation, collection, selection and breeding.
The number of lilac varieties has increased from 18 to 103, with 69 breedable.
SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHANG JINMEI, Director of Xining forestry science research center
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