Polish residents worried over energy price hike ahead of winter

STORY: Polish residents worried over energy price hike ahead of winter DATELINE: Sept. 6, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:16 LOCATION: Warsaw CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the views in Poland 2. STANDUP (English): CHEN CHEN, Xinhua correspondent in Warsaw 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MICHAL PASIEKA, Warsaw resident 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): GUO XUEWEI, Restaurant owner in Gdansk 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Polish): ROBERT TOMASZEWSKI, Energy market analyst of "Polityka Insight" STORYLINE: Residents in Poland are worried over drastically rising energy prices ahead of the winter as the country is facing an energy crisis. Wholesale energy prices remain under pressure from high gas and coal prices. Electricity prices offered by the state-owned company PGNiG are to increase by over 300 percent in the fall compared to January last year. High energy prices have a direct impact on the public, particularly on business owners amid the inflation, which hovers at the highest level since March 1997. STANDUP (English): CHEN

Discovering ancient Silk Road: mystery of a tomb cluster

STORY: Discovering ancient Silk Road: mystery of a tomb cluster DATELINE: May 25, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:28 LOCATION: QINGHAI, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the evacuation site of the 2018 Xuewei No.1 Tomb, offered by the evacuation team 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): HAN JIANHUA, Associate researcher with the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): HAN JIANHUA, Associate researcher with the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): HAN JIANHUA, Associate researcher with the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences STORYLINE: Dulan County, NW China's Qinghai Years of excavation work at Xuewei No.1 Tomb, a high-profile tomb on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has uncovered many mysteries. Archaeologists believe that the craftsmanship and design of some burial objects of the Xuewei No.1 Tomb have Central and West Asian ethnic features, indicating the area used to be a