Chinese papermaker devotes to promoting ancient technique

STORY: Chinese papermaker devotes to promoting ancient technique DATELINE: July 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:47 LOCATION: GUIYANG, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of papermaking in Shiqiao Village 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WANG XINGWU, Papermaker STORYLINE: Wang Xingwu, 56, is a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking from Shiqiao Village in southwest China's Guizhou Province. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and papercrafts. One of the products even has a shelf life of 1,500 years. His products have received international recognition, attracting clients from some world-famous museums. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WANG XINGWU, Papermaker "In 2000, experts from the National Library of China, the Palace Museum and the National Museum of China were looking for papers t

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(220203) -- ZHANGJIAKOU, Feb. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Torch bearer Liu Xingwu runs with the torch during the Beijing 2022 Olympic Torch Relay at Desheng Village in Zhangbei County of Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, Feb. 3, 2022. (Xinhua/Du Yifang)

(BEIJING2022) CHINA-HEBEI-ZHANGJIAKOU-OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY (CN)

(BEIJING2022) CHINA-HEBEI-ZHANGJIAKOU-OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY (CN)

(220203) -- ZHANGJIAKOU, Feb. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Torch bearers Lu Wei (L) and Liu Xingwu attend the Beijing 2022 Olympic Torch Relay at Desheng Village in Zhangbei County of Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province, Feb. 3, 2022. (Xinhua/Du Yifang)