Japan to draw up GX vision in 2024

Japan to draw up GX vision in 2024

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) speaks during a meeting with high-tech company senior officials and AI experts at the premier's office in Tokyo on July 2, 2024, as the government plans to forge a new green transformation vision -- a national strategy for giving momentum toward a carbon-neutral society -- by the end of 2024.

China's cataract eradication project brings hope to patients in Cambodia

STORY: China's cataract eradication project brings hope to patients in Cambodia SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 28, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 30, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:54 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of the project 2. various of surgical operation 3. various of cataract patients 4. SOUNDBITE 1 (Khmer): DUK SARUN, Cataract patient in Cambodia 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Khmer): SO SOPANHAVATEI, Director of Prey Veng Provincial Referral Hospital, Cambodia 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): LU HUAWEN, Leader of Chinese medical team from Wuzhou Gongren Hospital, China STORYLINE: A cataract eradication project, backed by China's GX Foundation, has been carried out in five countries across Asia and Africa, including Cambodia, Laos, Djibouti, Mauritania and Senegal. Duk Sarun, a 68-year-old cataract patient in Cambodia, is the project's 10,000th patient globally and the 3,138th patient in Cambodia to benefit from free-of-charge cataract surgery performed by Chinese ophthalmologists. SOUNDBITE 1 (Khmer): DUK SARUN, Cataract

2024 Spring Festival Flight

2024 Spring Festival Flight

YICHANG, CHINA - JANUARY 9, 2024 - A Guangxi GX Airlines passenger flight in operation at the Three Gorges Airport in Yichang, Hubei province, China, January 9, 2024.

2024 Spring Festival Flight

2024 Spring Festival Flight

YICHANG, CHINA - JANUARY 9, 2024 - A Guangxi GX Airlines passenger flight in operation at the Three Gorges Airport in Yichang, Hubei province, China, January 9, 2024.

Hong Kong charity provides 7,300 free cataract operations in Belt and Road partner countries

STORY: Hong Kong charity provides 7,300 free cataract operations in Belt and Road partner countries SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 22, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:34 LOCATION: HONG KONG, China CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of the ceremony STORYLINE: Hong Kong-based charity GX Foundation has provided more than 7,300 free cataract operations in five partner countries of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), facilitating people-to-people exchanges, according to the foundation. Founded in 2018 in Hong Kong, the non-government charity has brought brightness to people in Laos, Cambodia, Djibouti, Senegal and Mauritania, and planned to complete a total of 37,500 free cataract surgeries in these countries between 2022 and 2027. John Lee, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said that the BRI has promoted win-win international cooperation and brought substantial benefits to its partner countries, adding that Hong Kong will continue to align with the BRI and leverage its adv

CAMBODIA-PREY VENG-CHINESE DOCTORS-CATARACT TREATMENT

CAMBODIA-PREY VENG-CHINESE DOCTORS-CATARACT TREATMENT

(231120) -- PHNOM PENH, Nov. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chinese doctors perform surgery for a patient who suffers from cataract at a hospital in Prey Veng province, Cambodia, Nov. 14, 2023. Funded by China's GX Foundation, the Cataract Blindness Eradication Project for the period of three years from Sept. 2022 to Sept. 2025 is expected to regain vision for some 10,000 cataract patients in Prey Veng province. TO GO WITH "Feature: Chinese doctors help restore eyesight for cataract patients in Cambodia" (Photo by Liao Hongqing/Xinhua)

CAMBODIA-PREY VENG-CHINESE DOCTORS-CATARACT TREATMENT

CAMBODIA-PREY VENG-CHINESE DOCTORS-CATARACT TREATMENT

(231120) -- PHNOM PENH, Nov. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese doctor (R) examines a patient who suffers from cataract at a hospital in Prey Veng province, Cambodia, Nov. 14, 2023. Funded by China's GX Foundation, the Cataract Blindness Eradication Project for the period of three years from Sept. 2022 to Sept. 2025 is expected to regain vision for some 10,000 cataract patients in Prey Veng province. TO GO WITH "Feature: Chinese doctors help restore eyesight for cataract patients in Cambodia" (Photo by Liao Hongqing/Xinhua)

CAMBODIA-PREY VENG-CHINESE DOCTORS-CATARACT TREATMENT

CAMBODIA-PREY VENG-CHINESE DOCTORS-CATARACT TREATMENT

(231120) -- PHNOM PENH, Nov. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese doctor (L) examines a patient who suffers from cataract at a hospital in Prey Veng province, Cambodia, Nov. 14, 2023. Funded by China's GX Foundation, the Cataract Blindness Eradication Project for the period of three years from Sept. 2022 to Sept. 2025 is expected to regain vision for some 10,000 cataract patients in Prey Veng province. TO GO WITH "Feature: Chinese doctors help restore eyesight for cataract patients in Cambodia" (Photo by Liao Hongqing/Xinhua)

CAMBODIA-PREY VENG-CHINESE DOCTORS-CATARACT TREATMENT

CAMBODIA-PREY VENG-CHINESE DOCTORS-CATARACT TREATMENT

(231120) -- PHNOM PENH, Nov. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A patient (R, front) walks out of a mobile operation room after receiving a cataract surgery at a hospital in Prey Veng province, Cambodia, Nov. 14, 2023. Funded by China's GX Foundation, the Cataract Blindness Eradication Project for the period of three years from Sept. 2022 to Sept. 2025 is expected to regain vision for some 10,000 cataract patients in Prey Veng province. TO GO WITH "Feature: Chinese doctors help restore eyesight for cataract patients in Cambodia" (Photo by Liao Hongqing/Xinhua)

Chinese doctors help restore eyesight for cataract patients in Cambodia

STORY: Chinese doctors help restore eyesight for cataract patients in Cambodia SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 14, 2023 DATELINE: Nov. 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:37 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of the hospital 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Khmer): KEA REN, Cataract patient 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Khmer): BUTH RON, Cataract patient 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Khmer): SO SOPANHAVATEI, Director of Prey Veng Provincial Referral Hospital 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): ZHAI JIANWEI, Chinese ophthalmologist 6. various of the hospital STORYLINE: Since 2022, a China-aided cataract blindness elimination project has been helping Cambodian patients restore eyesight in the country's Prey Veng Province. Funded by China's GX Foundation, the Cataract Blindness Eradication Project for the period of three years from September 2022 to September 2025 is expected to regain vision for some 10,000 cataract patients. Under the project, the GX Foundation has dispatched a Chinese medical team, together with two mobile eye treatment centers and a 35-seat

CERES-1 Launch From Haiyang Sea in Yantai

CERES-1 Launch From Haiyang Sea in Yantai

YANTAI, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 - The "CERES-1" sea-launched carrier rocket lifts off from Haiyang Sea in Yantai, Shandong province, China, Sept 5, 2023. At 17:34 on September 5, 2023, China's Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center used the "CERES-1" sea launch vehicle in the Haiyang sea of Yantai, Shandong province, to successfully send four satellites of the 21 to 24 stars of the Tianqi Constellation into the predetermined orbit, which is the first time that a rocket of a private rocket company in China conducted a successful sea launch.

CERES-1 Launch From Haiyang Sea in Yantai

CERES-1 Launch From Haiyang Sea in Yantai

YANTAI, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 - The "CERES-1" sea-launched carrier rocket lifts off from Haiyang Sea in Yantai, Shandong province, China, Sept 5, 2023. At 17:34 on September 5, 2023, China's Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center used the "CERES-1" sea launch vehicle in the Haiyang sea of Yantai, Shandong province, to successfully send four satellites of the 21 to 24 stars of the Tianqi Constellation into the predetermined orbit, which is the first time that a rocket of a private rocket company in China conducted a successful sea launch.

CERES-1 Launch From Haiyang Sea in Yantai

CERES-1 Launch From Haiyang Sea in Yantai

YANTAI, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 - The "CERES-1" sea-launched carrier rocket lifts off from Haiyang Sea in Yantai, Shandong province, China, Sept 5, 2023. At 17:34 on September 5, 2023, China's Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center used the "CERES-1" sea launch vehicle in the Haiyang sea of Yantai, Shandong province, to successfully send four satellites of the 21 to 24 stars of the Tianqi Constellation into the predetermined orbit, which is the first time that a rocket of a private rocket company in China conducted a successful sea launch.

CERES-1 Launch From Haiyang Sea in Yantai

CERES-1 Launch From Haiyang Sea in Yantai

YANTAI, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 - The "CERES-1" sea-launched carrier rocket lifts off from Haiyang Sea in Yantai, Shandong province, China, Sept 5, 2023. At 17:34 on September 5, 2023, China's Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center used the "CERES-1" sea launch vehicle in the Haiyang sea of Yantai, Shandong province, to successfully send four satellites of the 21 to 24 stars of the Tianqi Constellation into the predetermined orbit, which is the first time that a rocket of a private rocket company in China conducted a successful sea launch.

CERES-1 Launch From Haiyang Sea in Yantai

CERES-1 Launch From Haiyang Sea in Yantai

YANTAI, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 - The "CERES-1" sea-launched carrier rocket lifts off from Haiyang Sea in Yantai, Shandong province, China, Sept 5, 2023. At 17:34 on September 5, 2023, China's Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center used the "CERES-1" sea launch vehicle in the Haiyang sea of Yantai, Shandong province, to successfully send four satellites of the 21 to 24 stars of the Tianqi Constellation into the predetermined orbit, which is the first time that a rocket of a private rocket company in China conducted a successful sea launch.

CERES-1 Launch From Haiyang Sea in Yantai

CERES-1 Launch From Haiyang Sea in Yantai

YANTAI, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 - The "CERES-1" sea-launched carrier rocket lifts off from Haiyang Sea in Yantai, Shandong province, China, Sept 5, 2023. At 17:34 on September 5, 2023, China's Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center used the "CERES-1" sea launch vehicle in the Haiyang sea of Yantai, Shandong province, to successfully send four satellites of the 21 to 24 stars of the Tianqi Constellation into the predetermined orbit, which is the first time that a rocket of a private rocket company in China conducted a successful sea launch.

Djiboutians regain eyesight after cataract surgeries by Chinese doctors

STORY: Djiboutians regain eyesight after cataract surgeries by Chinese doctors DATELINE: March 12, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:51 LOCATION: Djibouti City CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of Djiboutian cataract patients being treated by Chinese doctors 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): BILYAMINE, Cataract patient 3. various of Djiboutian cataract patients being treated by Chinese doctors 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): IBRAHIM HAMOUD IBRAHIM, Retired Ophthalmologist of Peltier General Hospital 5. various of Djiboutian cataract patients being treated by Chinese doctors 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): LIU JIANTING, Head of a Chinese medical team to Djibouti STORYLINE: A medical aid program joined by Chinese doctors is helping residents suffering from cataract in Djibouti, to regain eyesight. The aid program is jointly run by the Chinese health administrations and the GX Foundation, a non-profit and non-governmental organization registered in China's Hong Kong. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): BILYAMINE, Cataract patient "The operation was re

DJIBOUTI-CHINESE NGO-CATARACT SURGERIES

DJIBOUTI-CHINESE NGO-CATARACT SURGERIES

(230228) -- DJIBOUTI CITY, Feb. 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- GX Foundation renews its memorandum of understanding with the Djibouti Ministry of Health in Djibouti City, Djibouti, Feb. 27, 2023. GX Foundation, a non-profit and non-governmental organization registered in Hong Kong, China, kicked off here Monday a project that aims to offer cataract surgeries to patients and help them regain vision in the Red Sea nation of Djibouti. (Xinhua/Han Xu)

DJIBOUTI-CHINESE NGO-CATARACT SURGERIES

DJIBOUTI-CHINESE NGO-CATARACT SURGERIES

(230228) -- DJIBOUTI CITY, Feb. 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Leung Chun-ying (2nd L), vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the GX Foundation, Djiboutian Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed (2nd R), Djiboutian Minister of Health Ahmed Robleh Abdilleh (1st R), and Chinese Ambassador to Djibouti Hu Bin (1st L) cut the ribbon during the launching ceremony of a health project in Djibouti City, Djibouti, Feb. 27, 2023. GX Foundation, a non-profit and non-governmental organization registered in Hong Kong, China, kicked off here Monday a project that aims to offer cataract surgeries to patients and help them regain vision in the Red Sea nation of Djibouti. (Xinhua/Han Xu)

First outbound tour group from China's Guangxi flies to Bangkok

STORY: First outbound tour group from China's Guangxi flies to Bangkok DATELINE: Feb. 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:14 LOCATION: NANNING, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of passengers in the airport 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YANG RONG, Tourist 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): WANG SHEN, Staff member of a Chinese travel agency 4. various of passengers in the airport 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): NIU LIN, President of Guangxi Beibu Gulf Airlines Co. Ltd. (GX Airlines) 6. SOUNDBITE 4 (Thai): RUNGTIP BOOKKUNTOD, Director of Kunming Office of Tourism Authority of Thailand 7. various of passengers STORYLINE: A plane carrying a Chinese tour group took off on Monday from Nanning Airport in south China's Guangxi, heading for Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. It's the first outbound tour group from Guangxi to Thailand in three years. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YANG RONG, Tourist "It has been three years since I last traveled abroad. Now I guess many people are passionate about traveling overseas. Thailand is my firs

Space Battleship Yamato's metallic model

Space Battleship Yamato's metallic model

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photos show the GX-57 metallic model of the Space Battleship Yamato that Bandai Co. will release on Nov. 27, 2010.

Space Battleship Yamato's metallic model

Space Battleship Yamato's metallic model

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photos show the GX-57 metallic model of the Space Battleship Yamato that Bandai Co. will release on Nov. 27, 2010. (Kyodo)