AUSTRALIA-SYDNEY-FESTIVAL OF SPRING-CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR GALA NIGHT

AUSTRALIA-SYDNEY-FESTIVAL OF SPRING-CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR GALA NIGHT

(240221) -- SYDNEY, Feb. 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Peking Opera artist Hu Wenge, who is the third-generation successor of the Mei School of Peking Opera, performs during the "Festival of Spring" Chinese Lunar New Year Gala Night in Sydney, Australia, Feb. 21, 2024. The "Festival of Spring" is a national cultural brand hosted by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of China's State Council, and the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, a Chinese civic organization. (Xinhua/Ma Ping)

NEW ZEALAND-AUCKLAND-CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR GALA

NEW ZEALAND-AUCKLAND-CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR GALA

(240214) -- AUCKLAND, Feb. 14, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Peking Opera artist Wenge Hu, who is the third-generation successor of the Mei School of Peking Opera, performs during the "Festival of Spring" Chinese Lunar New Year Gala Night in Auckland, New Zealand, Feb. 13, 2024. The "Festival of Spring" Chinese Lunar New Year Gala Night was held on Tuesday night in Auckland, the largest city of New Zealand. The "Festival of Spring" is a national cultural brand hosted by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of China's State Council, and the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, a Chinese civic organization. This year, the "Festival of Spring" art troupe from China comprised 35 artists who started their tour performances from Auckland. (Xinhua/Guo Lei)

Ratoon cropping to boost grain yield in east China

STORY: Ratoon cropping to boost grain yield in east China DATELINE: Aug. 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:30 LOCATION: NANCHANG, China CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of harvests of ratoon rice STORYLINE: East China's Jiangxi Province has made a breakthrough in the practice of ratoon cropping, as the major grain producer adopts ratoon rice to enhance its grain yield. The yield measurement result released on Sunday indicated the average yield per mu (about 667 square meters) in the early season of the rice ratoon crops reached 905.1 kg, nearing the national standard for super hybrid rice. Ratoon cropping is a rice planting model in which rice crops are able to regrow from the stubble after the first harvest, according to experts. Three plots of land were randomly selected for the test within a demonstration area covering 170 mu in the province's Poyang County, said Wu Wenge, head of the expert panel, adding that additional efforts are underway to cultivate the crop. "Ratoon rice can be harvested twice