Xinjiang, My home: Kazakh craftsman devoted to bone carving

STORY: Xinjiang, My home: Kazakh craftsman devoted to bone carving DATELINE: March 25, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:07 LOCATION: JIMUNAI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1.SOUNDBITE (Chinese): GEMING NUERK, Kazakh craftsman STORYLINE: Bone carving is a special type of Kazakh craftsmanship that has been listed as a regional-level intangible cultural heritage of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Geming Nuerk, a third-generation inheritor of bone carving, has been devoted to passing down the craftsmanship with the support from the local government. Jimunai County Xinjiang, NW China SOUNDBITE (Chinese): GEMING NUERK, Kazakh craftsman I'm Geming Nuerk, 51 years old. I'm the third-generation inheritor of bone carving, a regional-level intangible cultural heritage. This is my child Ulpan. He's been learning bone carving from me for over three years. We often come to the Prairie Stone tourist attraction, where we can sell our hand-made artworks. When business is good, I can earn about 30,000 yuan (abo