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QINGZHOU, CHINA - MARCH 9, 2025 - Workers assemble smart water meters in the workshop of a manufacturing enterprise in Qingzhou Economic Development Zone, East China's Shandong province on March 9, 2025. On the same day, the National Bureau of Statistics released data, in February 2025, the national industrial producer prices fell 2.2% year on year, down 0.1% month on month.

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China Manufacturing Industry

QINGZHOU, CHINA - MARCH 9, 2025 - Workers assemble smart water meters in the workshop of a manufacturing enterprise in Qingzhou Economic Development Zone, East China's Shandong province on March 9, 2025. On the same day, the National Bureau of Statistics released data, in February 2025, the national industrial producer prices fell 2.2% year on year, down 0.1% month on month.

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China Manufacturing Industry

QINGZHOU, CHINA - MARCH 9, 2025 - Workers assemble smart water meters in the workshop of a manufacturing enterprise in Qingzhou Economic Development Zone, East China's Shandong province on March 9, 2025. On the same day, the National Bureau of Statistics released data, in February 2025, the national industrial producer prices fell 2.2% year on year, down 0.1% month on month.

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Devastation at the west end of Miyuki Bridge (Panoramic view)

At the west end of Miyuki Bridge, 2.2 kilometers southeast of the hypocenter. A police officer from the Ujina Police Station had begun to administer first aid by applying oil stored in the station to the wounds of the injured men and women of all ages who had taken refuge there. Men and women collapsed or squatting, a woman holding a baby, female students receiving first aid, and a police officer are captured in the photo. The railings on the lower river side (left side) of the bridge had been blown into the river. The building on the left is the Senda-machi Police Box of the Ujina Police Station, and the building in the back is Hiroshima Technical Institute. Miyuki Bridge, connecting Senda-machi and Minami-machi, is one of the major bridges in Hiroshima City, on which streetcars also run. (Distance from hypocenter 2200 meters.) Photo: Yoshito Matsushige, Collection: Photo Archives of Japan, Ownership: Chugoku Shimbun, **Editorial use only, commercial use not possible**,Credit: Chugoku Shimbun/Kyodo News Images

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China's icebreaker Jidi carries out trial mission

STORY: China's icebreaker Jidi carries out trial mission DATELINE: Jan. 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:53 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the icebreaker STORYLINE: Jidi, an icebreaker built by China's Sun Yat-sen University is on a trial mission in Liaodong Bay to test its low-temperature navigation and ice-breaking ability. Jidi can break through ice as thick as 2.2 meters. After the trial mission, Jidi will join other Chinese icebreakers to boost the country's polar research and expedition capabilities. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Shanghai, China. (XHTV)

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Remains of 17th-century 'Japanese Bridge' in central Vietnam found

HANOI, Vietnam - Photo shows clayware and carbonized wooden pegs that appear to have supported the columns of a 17th-century bridge believed built by Japanese settlers at the World Heritage site of Hoi An in central Vietnam. A team of Japanese and Vietnamese researchers has excavated them from a geological layer at a depth of 2.2 meters below a road at the foot of what is known as the ''Japanese Bridge.''

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Electric minivehicle for elderly debuts

TOKYO, Japan - A single-seat electric vehicle for the elderly was unveiled in Tokyo on Oct. 7. Unlike automobiles, the vehicle does not have a foot break or an accelerator pedal. The electric vehicle, measuring 2.2 meters long and 1.2 meters wide, was jointly developed by Minoru Kamata, assistant professor of the University of Tokyo, and a Yokohama-based auto company.

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1.9-meter-high giant hybrid rice ready for harvest in Guizhou, China

STORY: 1.9-meter-high giant hybrid rice ready for harvest in Guizhou, China DATELINE: Sept. 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:21 LOCATION: GUIYANG, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. aerial views of Guizhou's rice fields 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): SHI XICHANG, Local farmer 3. various of people cultivating rice fields 4. various of hybrid rice plants STORYLINE: In Sanzhou Village of Rongjiang County in southwest China's Guizhou Province, a giant hybrid rice variety is entering harvest season. The giant hybrid rice variety, which can grow 1.9 meters tall, was sown on four mu (0.27 hectares) of pilot rice paddies this May. China has completely independent intellectual property rights of giant hybrid rice. The height of giant hybrid rice ranges from 1.8 to 2.2 meters. Its height doubles that of ordinary rice. Giant hybrid rice has large ears and more grains. Its yield in a single season is expected to reach 1,200 kilograms per mu (0.0667 hectares). With high resistance to drought, seawater and salinity, giant

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Over 1.8-meter-tall hybrid rice harvested in central China's Hubei

STORY: Over 1.8-meter-tall hybrid rice harvested in central China's Hubei DATELINE: Sept. 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:43 LOCATION: WUHAN, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of hybrid rice in central China's Hubei Province STORYLINE: The harvest of a kind of giant hybrid rice has started in Lianghu Village of Jiayu County in central China's Hubei Province. The rice variety, developed by a team of agricultural experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, can grow to 1.8 meters to 2.2 meters tall. It is cultivated to be high-yielding, drought-tolerant, and resistant to disease and waterlogging. The rice variety is planted on 4,000 mu (about 267 hectares) of land by a local agricultural cooperative. The planting area in the village is expected to expand to 10,000 mu (about 667 hectares) next year. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Wuhan, China. (XHTV)

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GLOBALink | BMW opens new factory in NE China

STORY: BMW opens new factory in NE China DATELINE: June 24, 2022 LENGTH: 0:00:47 LOCATION: SHENYANG, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Plant Lydia of BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd. STORYLINE: A new factory of BMW Group's joint venture in China opened Thursday in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, with an investment totaling 15 billion yuan (about 2.2 billion U.S. dollars). Plant Lydia of BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd. (BBA), a joint venture between BMW and Chinese carmaker Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Ltd., will boost BMW's annual output in China to 830,000 vehicles, the automaker said. It is the biggest single investment of the German automaker in China. Located in the Tiexi District of Shenyang, Plant Lydia covers a total area of 2.9 million square meters. It has ancillary facilities like a body shop, paint shop, final assembly lines, and a large data center. The plant is covered with a gigabit 5G network to meet the bandwidth requirements for technologies li

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Remains of 17th-century 'Japanese Bridge' in central Vietnam fou

HANOI, Vietnam - Photo shows clayware and carbonized wooden pegs that appear to have supported the columns of a 17th-century bridge believed built by Japanese settlers at the World Heritage site of Hoi An in central Vietnam. A team of Japanese and Vietnamese researchers has excavated them from a geological layer at a depth of 2.2 meters below a road at the foot of what is known as the ''Japanese Bridge.'' (Kyodo)

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Wooden boat found on Japan coast

Photo taken on Dec. 7, 2017, shows parts of a wooden boat that washed ashore in Sakai, Fukui Prefecture. Japan Coast Guard officials suspect the boat -- 4.5 meters long and 2.2 meters wide -- came from North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Electric minivehicle for elderly debuts

TOKYO, Japan - A single-seat electric vehicle for the elderly was unveiled in Tokyo on Oct. 7. Unlike automobiles, the vehicle does not have a foot break or an accelerator pedal. The electric vehicle, measuring 2.2 meters long and 1.2 meters wide, was jointly developed by Minoru Kamata, assistant professor of the University of Tokyo, and a Yokohama-based auto company.