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Foreign specialty crops thrive amid China's economic vitality

STORY: Foreign specialty crops thrive amid China's economic vitality SHOOTING TIME: File DATELINE: Nov. 20, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:23 LOCATION: KUNMING, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the planting areas of coffee, avocados and macadamia nuts 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): DENG JIALU, General manager, Yunnan Simao Beigui Coffee Co., Ltd. 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZHAWA, Manager at an avocado planting base in Nanya Village, Menglian County STORYLINE: Coffee, avocados and macadamia nuts, originating from various parts of the world, have been widely grown in China's Yunnan, earning widespread acclaim in the global market. Pu'er City, famous for Pu'er tea, a deep-brewed tea with a sweet aroma, is making a name for itself as China's coffee capital. In 2022, the city's coffee planting area reached 679,000 mu (about 45,267 hectares), and the output value of the coffee industry exceeded 5 billion yuan (about 696 million USD). It has become a leading city within China in terms of both coffee production an

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Xinhua Headlines: Foreign specialty crops thrive amid China's economic vitality

(231120) -- KUNMING, Nov. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Farmers sort out avocados at a farm in Nanya Village of Menglian County in Pu'er, southwest China's Yunnan Province, on Sept. 20, 2023. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)

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Xinhua Headlines: Foreign specialty crops thrive amid China's economic vitality

(231120) -- KUNMING, Nov. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A farmer picks avocados at a farm in Nanya Village of Menglian County in Pu'er, southwest China's Yunnan Province, on Sept. 20, 2023. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-MENGLIAN-AVOCADO INDUSTRY (CN)

(230920) -- MENGLIAN, Sept. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A farmer picks avocados at an avocado planting base in Nanya Village of Nayun Town, Menglian County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 20, 2023. In recent years, local authorities of Menglian County have vigorously developed the avocado industry. The county is now the largest avocado planting base in China, with a cumulative planting area exceeding 103,600 mu (about 6,907 hectares) and an output value of over 600 million yuan (about 82.3 million U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Hu Chao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-MENGLIAN-AVOCADO INDUSTRY (CN)

(230920) -- MENGLIAN, Sept. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Farmers sort avocados at an avocado planting base in Nanya Village of Nayun Town, Menglian County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 20, 2023. In recent years, local authorities of Menglian County have vigorously developed the avocado industry. The county is now the largest avocado planting base in China, with a cumulative planting area exceeding 103,600 mu (about 6,907 hectares) and an output value of over 600 million yuan (about 82.3 million U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Hu Chao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-MENGLIAN-AVOCADO INDUSTRY (CN)

(230920) -- MENGLIAN, Sept. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A farmer shows an avocado at an avocado planting base in Nanya Village of Nayun Town, Menglian County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Sept. 20, 2023. In recent years, local authorities of Menglian County have vigorously developed the avocado industry. The county is now the largest avocado planting base in China, with a cumulative planting area exceeding 103,600 mu (about 6,907 hectares) and an output value of over 600 million yuan (about 82.3 million U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Hu Chao)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-MENGLIAN-AVOCADO INDUSTRY (CN)

(230920) -- MENGLIAN, Sept. 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Sept. 20, 2023 shows an avocado planting base in Nanya Village of Nayun Town, Menglian County, Southwest China's Yunnan Province. In recent years, local authorities of Menglian County have vigorously developed the avocado industry. The county is now the largest avocado planting base in China, with a cumulative planting area exceeding 103,600 mu (about 6,907 hectares) and an output value of over 600 million yuan (about 82.3 million U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Hu Chao)

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5th anniv. of deadly Amagasaki train accident

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Shojiro Nanya (R), former chairman of West Japan Railway Co., and Takeshi Kakiuchi (L), former president of the company, offer flowers on the fifth anniversary of a deadly accident involving the company's train in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. A total of 107 people were killed in the incident.

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Kakiuchi to become JR West president April 1

OSAKA, Japan - Takeshi Kakiuchi (R), vice president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Feb. 17. He will be promoted to president April 1, replacing Shojiro Nanya (L), who will become chairman.

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JR West not to appeal fatal train crash case to top court

OSAKA, Japan - Shojiro Nanya (L), president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), speaks at a news conference Dec. 30 in Osaka's Kita Ward about the company's decision not to appeal to the Supreme Court a ruling by the Osaka High Court ordering it and a small railway firm to compensate the families of nine of 42 people killed in a fatal train crash in Shiga Prefecture in 1991.

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JR West head gives instructions to tunnel inspectors

OKAYAMA, Japan - Shojiro Nanya, president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), gives instructions to workers on the night of Nov. 12 before they start full-fledged inspections of tunnels on the Sanyo Shinkansen line linking Osaka with Fukuoka. JR West is inspecting all 142 tunnels along the line in an effort to prevent the recurrence of recent accidents in which concrete slabs fell from the wall of the Fukuoka and Kitakyushu tunnels, railway officials said.

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JR West's president speaks after inspecting tunnel

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Shojiro Nanya, president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), speaks to reporters Oct. 16 at Kokura Station in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, after inspecting a tunnel on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line where a block of concrete weighing 226 kilograms fell from the wall Oct. 9.

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JR West head vows to review tunnel inspection manuals

OSAKA, Japan - The president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), Shojiro Nanya, speaks at a news conference at JR West's Osaka head office Oct. 10. He pledged to review JR West's tunnel inspection manuals in the wake of Saturday's fall of a large concrete block in the Kitakyushu Tunnel in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on the Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train line linking Osaka with Fukuoka.

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JR West not to appeal fatal train crash case to top court

OSAKA, Japan - Shojiro Nanya (L), president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), speaks at a news conference Dec. 30 in Osaka's Kita Ward about the company's decision not to appeal to the Supreme Court a ruling by the Osaka High Court ordering it and a small railway firm to compensate the families of nine of 42 people killed in a fatal train crash in Shiga Prefecture in 1991. (Kyodo)

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5th anniv. of deadly Amagasaki train accident

AMAGASAKI, Japan - Shojiro Nanya (R), former chairman of West Japan Railway Co., and Takeshi Kakiuchi (L), former president of the company, offer flowers on the fifth anniversary of a deadly accident involving the company's train in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 25, 2010. A total of 107 people were killed in the incident. (Kyodo)

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Kakiuchi to become JR West president April 1

OSAKA, Japan - Takeshi Kakiuchi (R), vice president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Feb. 17. He will be promoted to president April 1, replacing Shojiro Nanya (L), who will become chairman. (Kyodo)

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JR West head gives instructions to tunnel inspectors

OKAYAMA, Japan - Shojiro Nanya, president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), gives instructions to workers on the night of Nov. 12 before they start full-fledged inspections of tunnels on the Sanyo Shinkansen line linking Osaka with Fukuoka. JR West is inspecting all 142 tunnels along the line in an effort to prevent the recurrence of recent accidents in which concrete slabs fell from the wall of the Fukuoka and Kitakyushu tunnels, railway officials said.

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JR West's president speaks after inspecting tunnel

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Shojiro Nanya, president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), speaks to reporters Oct. 16 at Kokura Station in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, after inspecting a tunnel on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line where a block of concrete weighing 226 kilograms fell from the wall Oct. 9.

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JR West head vows to review tunnel inspection manuals

OSAKA, Japan - The president of West Japan Railway Co. (JR West), Shojiro Nanya, speaks at a news conference at JR West's Osaka head office Oct. 10. He pledged to review JR West's tunnel inspection manuals in the wake of Saturday's fall of a large concrete block in the Kitakyushu Tunnel in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on the Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train line linking Osaka with Fukuoka.