Barcelona hosts 1st forum of directors of Confucius Institute in Spain

STORY: Barcelona hosts 1st forum of directors of Confucius Institute in Spain DATELINE: May 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:26 LOCATION: Madrid CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of family photo of the directors of Confucius Institute in Spain at University of Barcelona 2. various of the forum 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): LI PEIHUA, Director of Foundation of the Confucius Institute of Barcelona 4. various of the forum 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): LI PEIHUA, Director of Foundation of the Confucius Institute of Barcelona 6. various of the forum 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): ZHANG YAN, Director of Confucius Institute of Madrid 8. SOUNDBITE 4 (Spanish): GONZALO MIRANDA, Director of Confucius Institute of Seville 9. various of people talking STORYLINE: The first forum of directors of the Confucius Institute in Spain is being held in Barcelona. Leaders of the nine institutes across Spain have been sharing their ideas and experiences from May 17 to 19. The inaugural session was held on Thursday. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): LI PEI

CHINA-SICHUAN-GEOLOGICAL EXPERT-WU XICHUN (CN)

CHINA-SICHUAN-GEOLOGICAL EXPERT-WU XICHUN (CN)

(230320) -- CHENGDU, March 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Wu Xichun arranges files with his wife Li Peihua at home in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, March 7, 2023. Wu Xichun is a professor at the College of Energy of the Chengdu University of Technology and an expert in geology. In the early 1970s, while conducting a geological mapping survey in the northwestern part of Sichuan Province, Wu unexpectedly discovered a reef group formed by Triassic siliceous hexactinellid sponges. Since then, he has devoted himself to the study on sponge reefs for nearly five decades. In order to study foreign literature, Wu mastered English, Russian, and German, and taught himself Latin, Greek, and Old French. He spent years conducting tens of times of on-site investigations at the discovery area to obtain more accurate research results and brought back dozens of pounds of fossils by himself. To clarify the reproduction and migration of hexactinellid sponges, Wu also brought the fossils abroad for more in-depth compar

CHINA-SICHUAN-GEOLOGICAL EXPERT-WU XICHUN (CN)

CHINA-SICHUAN-GEOLOGICAL EXPERT-WU XICHUN (CN)

(230320) -- CHENGDU, March 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Wu Xichun (L) and his wife Li Peihua walks in the campus of Chengdu University of Technology in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Feb. 27, 2023. Wu Xichun is a professor at the College of Energy of the Chengdu University of Technology and an expert in geology. In the early 1970s, while conducting a geological mapping survey in the northwestern part of Sichuan Province, Wu unexpectedly discovered a reef group formed by Triassic siliceous hexactinellid sponges. Since then, he has devoted himself to the study on sponge reefs for nearly five decades. In order to study foreign literature, Wu mastered English, Russian, and German, and taught himself Latin, Greek, and Old French. He spent years conducting tens of times of on-site investigations at the discovery area to obtain more accurate research results and brought back dozens of pounds of fossils by himself. To clarify the reproduction and migration of hexactinellid sponges, Wu also brought the fos