Experts, firms gather to explore cutting-edge offshore technologies at Houston conference

STORY: Experts, firms gather to explore cutting-edge offshore technologies at Houston conference DATELINE: May 3, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:43 LOCATION: HOUSTON, U.S. CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the exhibition 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WANG HAIBING, Director of marketing department, Yantai CIMC Raffles Ocean Technology Group STORYLINE: Tens of thousands of offshore energy professionals, experts and companies from all over the world flocked to Houston to explore and exhibit cutting-edge technologies and practices that may reshape the global offshore industry at a forum that kicked off on Monday. Topics ranging from arctic oil and gas opportunities, and deep-sea mining, to reservoir engineering, carbon capture and storage, as well as various marine resources, are discussed during packed panels at this year's Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), one of the largest offshore industry shows in the world. On the opening day, OTC also awarded the winners of this year's Spotlight on New Techn

Shanghai strives to secure agricultural supply chain

STORY: Shanghai strives to secure agricultural supply chain DATELINE: May 5, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:43 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of melon fields 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WU HAIBING, Melon farmer 3. various of transportation and logistics 4. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WANG ZHONGKUI, General manager of Darunfa supermarket in Nanhui in Shanghai 5. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): YU GUOJING, Manager of Dingdong online grocery store in Caoyang community in Shanghai 6. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WU HAIBING, Melon farmer STORYLINE: Wu Haibing, a melon farmer in Shuangdian village in Shanghai, is expecting a bumper harvest this summer. However, the unexpected resurgence of COVID-19 had stalled sales, as closed-off management was imposed. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WU HAIBING, Melon farmer "I couldn't sleep. I would wake up at 2 or 3 in the morning, just sitting on my chair worrying about my melons, what I can do with them. I thought about it day and night. I hadn't had a good night's sleep." After learning