I feel enthusiastic to live here: Italian professor in China

STORY: I feel enthusiastic to live here: Italian professor in China DATELINE: Nov. 19, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:32 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (English): ROCCO LACORTE, Associate professor at Nankai University STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ROCCO LACORTE, Associate professor at Nankai University "I've had the rare privilege of working in three different foreign countries. As I come from Italy, I worked in the United States for almost 10 years, in Brazil for almost 10 years. And now I'm starting working in China." Subtitle 1: What impresses you the most about China's development? SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ROCCO LACORTE, Associate professor at Nankai University "The thing that most impacts me is the will of the Chinese people to deal with all these matters and to solve the problems related to these matters. Obviously, I've noticed that there was a big effort to alleviate poverty. They solved the question of absolute poverty, hundreds of millions of Chinese people where freed

20th CPC National Congress has pivotal historical importance: Italian professor

STORY: 20th CPC National Congress has pivotal historical importance: Italian professor DATELINE: Oct. 20, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:23 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Tian'anmen Square and the Great Hall of the People in Beijing 2. various of Italian professor Rocco Lacorte 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ROCCO LACORTE, Associate professor, School of Marxism, Nankai University STORYLINE: The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is underway in Beijing. An Italian professor with China's Nankai University hailed the pivotal historical importance of the congress, saying it should not be considered as an ordinary meeting. SOUNDBITE (English): ROCCO LACORTE, Associate professor, School of Marxism, Nankai University "The 20th (National) Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) should not be considered as ordinary, but rather one of pivotal historical importance, for both national and international reasons. Under the national point of view, China's realizati