Photo exhibition featuring Chinese photographers kicks off in Tokyo

STORY: Photo exhibition featuring Chinese photographers kicks off in Tokyo DATELINE: Nov. 1, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:45 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the photo exhibition and guests delivering speech 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): FENG XUEMIN, Chinese photographer living in Japan STORYLINE: Some 60 photographs from three Chinese photographers in Japan are shown in Tokyo at an exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of the normalization of the China-Japan diplomatic relations. The exhibition, titled "Under the Same Sky" and featuring photographs from Feng Xuemin, Guo Yun and Jiang Ting, kicked off Monday in the China Cultural center in Tokyo. Yang Yu, charge d'affaires of the Chinese embassy in Japan, Yasuo Fukuda, former Japanese prime minister, and Kiyomi Seno, chairman of the Japan-China Society, attended the opening ceremony. Addressing the opening ceremony, Yang expressed his hope that the two countries will revisit their original aspiration for peace and friendship, stick to

China-Nigeria agricultural cooperation aims for greater food production

STORY: China-Nigeria agricultural cooperation aims for greater food production DATELINE: June 12, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:12 LOCATION: Abuja CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG XUEMIN, Assistant general manager and rice expert of Green Agriculture West Africa Limited (GAWAL) 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): OLUSEGUN OJO, Director-general of the National Agricultural Seeds Council 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): BELLO ZAKI, Director at the Agriculture Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN) 4. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): STEPHEN ELISHA, Local farmer STORYLINE: On a farm in the northwest suburb of Abuja, Nigeria's capital, Wang Xuemin, sweating profusely under the hot sun in June, walked along a ridge between rice paddy fields where a big harvest is apparently expected. He stopped from time to time and raised the loudspeaker in his hand, speaking to the crowd following him about the rice varieties, estimated yields and planting techniques used on the paddy fields, and answering questions from the crowd. T

NIGERIA-ABUJA-CHINA-AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION

NIGERIA-ABUJA-CHINA-AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION

(220611) -- ABUJA, June 11, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chinese agriculture expert Wang Xuemin (2nd L) hands over rice seeds to local people at a demonstration farm operated by a Chinese firm in Abuja, Nigeria, June 2, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: China-Nigeria agricultural cooperation aims for greater food production" (Xinhua/Guo Jun)

NIGERIA-ABUJA-CHINA-AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION

NIGERIA-ABUJA-CHINA-AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION

(220611) -- ABUJA, June 11, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chinese agriculture expert Wang Xuemin shows matured rice ear at a demonstration farm operated by a Chinese firm in Abuja, Nigeria, June 2, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: China-Nigeria agricultural cooperation aims for greater food production" (Xinhua/Guo Jun)