(PARIS2024) FRANCE-SAINT-DENIS-OLY-WATER POLO

(PARIS2024) FRANCE-SAINT-DENIS-OLY-WATER POLO

(240728) -- SAINT-DENIS, July 28, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Lola Moolhuijzen (L) of the Netherlands vies with Zhong Qiyun of China during the women's water polo preliminary round group A match between China and the Netherlands at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Saint-Denis, France, July 29, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Xu Zijian)

Young backpacker turns ocean trash into handicrafts on island in E. China

STORY: Young backpacker turns ocean trash into handicrafts on island in E. China DATELINE: June 9, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:36 LOCATION: FUZHOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of beautiful scenery on the island in Fujian, China 2. various of Chen Qiyun working 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): CHEN QIYUN, Backpacker and craftsman STORYLINE: Yushan Island in China's Fujian is reputed to be one of the most beautiful islands in the region. In the past, the island's shores were rife with ocean trash Chen Qiyun, a young backpacker, used to collect the trash and turn them into fine handicrafts SOUNDBITE (Chinese): CHEN QIYUN, Backpacker and craftsman "I was a backpacker in 2017. Then I came to Yushan Island. It was beautiful and unexploited, with large swathes of marshy grassland. I camped village by village. At that time, I found lots of plastic bottles, wood and bamboo stranded on the beach. I found that some of them could be collected and turned into handicrafts and decorations. This one is made from fishing