Illustration - Alsace

Illustration - Alsace

FRANCE. ALSACE. HAUT-RHIN (68) AERIAL VIEW OF THE VILLAGE OF SAINT-HIPPOLYTE, SURROUNDED BY ITS MEDIEVAL RAMPARTS. SAINT-HIPPOLYTE REVEALS ITS FORTIFIED REMAINS ? A GIFT FROM THE DUKE OF LORRAINE IN 1316 ? WHICH BLEND HARMONIOUSLY WITH THE VINEYARDS THAT SURROUND IT. Photo by Vincent Schneider/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - Modern high-rise buildings in Pudong's Lujiazui Financial and Trade Development Zone blend harmoniously with historic buildings on the Puxi Bund in Shanghai, China, February 12, 2025.

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - Modern high-rise buildings in Pudong's Lujiazui Financial and Trade Development Zone blend harmoniously with historic buildings on the Puxi Bund in Shanghai, China, February 12, 2025.

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - Modern high-rise buildings in Pudong's Lujiazui Financial and Trade Development Zone blend harmoniously with historic buildings on the Puxi Bund in Shanghai, China, February 12, 2025.

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - Modern high-rise buildings in Pudong's Lujiazui Financial and Trade Development Zone blend harmoniously with historic buildings on the Puxi Bund in Shanghai, China, February 12, 2025.

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - Modern high-rise buildings in Pudong's Lujiazui Financial and Trade Development Zone blend harmoniously with historic buildings on the Puxi Bund in Shanghai, China, February 12, 2025.

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - Modern high-rise buildings in Pudong's Lujiazui Financial and Trade Development Zone blend harmoniously with historic buildings on the Puxi Bund in Shanghai, China, February 12, 2025.

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - Modern high-rise buildings in Pudong's Lujiazui Financial and Trade Development Zone blend harmoniously with historic buildings on the Puxi Bund in Shanghai, China, February 12, 2025.

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

Huangpu River Scenery in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 12, 2025 - Modern high-rise buildings in Pudong's Lujiazui Financial and Trade Development Zone blend harmoniously with historic buildings on the Puxi Bund in Shanghai, China, February 12, 2025.

China signs participation contract for Expo 2025 in Osaka

STORY: China signs participation contract for Expo 2025 in Osaka DATELINE: April 28, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:33 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the signing ceremony STORYLINE: China has signed a participation contract for the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, western Japan, indicating that the preparations for China's attendance will be in full swing. The document was signed on Thursday between Zhang Shenfeng, commissioner general of the China Pavilion and vice chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and Hiroyuki Ishige, secretary general of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition. At the signing ceremony, the architectural design of the large-scale self-built China Pavilion was displayed. The bamboo-yellow structure taking the form of a traditional long scroll of ancient Chinese letters embodies the concept that Chinese culture originates from nature, conforms to nature, and coexists harmoniously with nature. Zhang said the theme of China

Ancient inscription shows Chinese people's environmental protection efforts 2,000 years ago

STORY: Ancient inscription shows Chinese people's environmental protection efforts 2,000 years ago DATELINE: June 6, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:02 LOCATION: LANZHOU, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the inscription 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XIAO CONGLI, Research director, Bamboo Slip Museum of Gansu Province STORYLINE: Sunday marked World Environment Day, an annual occasion to foster environmental awareness and prompt action since 1973. Thousands of years before the day was celebrated worldwide, ancient Chinese people had made great efforts to protect the environment and live harmoniously with nature. The Doctrine of Seasons, an inscription showing how ancient Chinese people lived and worked according to changes of climate and phenology, is being displayed at Gansu Jiandu Museum in northwest China. The inscription was discovered at an ancient courier station from the Han Dynasty (202 B.C.- A.D. 220), ruins of which are located in Dunhuang city of Gansu Province. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XIAO CONGL

Whooper swans fly back to Siberia after wintering in China

STORY: Whooper swans fly back to Siberia after wintering in China DATELINE: March 8, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:58 LOCATION: RONGCHENG, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY/ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of swans STORYLINE: Migratory swans began to fly back to the Siberia region after wintering in the nature reserve for swans in Rongcheng City, east China's Shandong Province. Every year from November to March of the following year, these whooper swans fly from Siberia to Rongcheng. In order to protect swans, Rongcheng City has set up two swan managerial stations in the nature reserve. And Rongcheng's swan protection and management model based on community participation has formed an urban ecology in which people and nature harmoniously coexist. Swans are listed as a national second-level protected animal in China and a globally vulnerable species. There are three main migration routes for Siberian swans flying to China, and Rongcheng is considered as one of the favorable destinations for swans. Xinhua News Agency corres