Chinese artist carves on tiny items

STORY: Chinese artist carves on tiny items SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 21, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 24, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:59 LOCATION: NANCHANG, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): HU CHENHUAN, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of carving 3. SOUNDBITE (English): ZHOU XINXING, Miniaturist from Jinxian County, Jiangxi 4. various of carving STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): HU CHENHUAN, Xinhua correspondent "Hello, everyone. This is a grain of rice engraved with eight pandas. Because it is too small, we need a magnifying glass to see it." Zhou Xinxing, a miniaturist from China's Jiangxi, carves on tiny items. He can even write down words on a thread of hair. SOUNDBITE (English): ZHOU XINXING, Miniaturist from Jinxian County, Jiangxi "When I first started doing 'hair carving,' I could hardly make a successful one out of 100 pieces. So I kept practicing every day. A little mistake would waste my entire work. The success rate was very low." Over the years, Zhou's works have extended to rice, paper fans, se