CHINA-SHAANXI-SPRING SCENERY (CN)

CHINA-SHAANXI-SPRING SCENERY (CN)

(240401) -- XI'AN, April 1, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on March 20, 2024 shows the scenery of Yangchun Township in Nanzheng District of Hanzhong, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. (Xinhua/Shao Rui)

CHINA-SHAANXI-SPRING SCENERY (CN)

CHINA-SHAANXI-SPRING SCENERY (CN)

(240401) -- XI'AN, April 1, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on March 20, 2024 shows a passenger train running along the Xi'an-Chengdu high-speed railway in Yangchun Town of Nanzheng District in Hanzhong, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, (Xinhua/Shao Rui)

(SP)CHINA-ZHEJIANG-JINHUA-ASIAN GAMES-TORCH RELAY (CN)

(SP)CHINA-ZHEJIANG-JINHUA-ASIAN GAMES-TORCH RELAY (CN)

(230917) -- JINHUA, Sept. 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Torch bearers Chen Meilan (L) and Lu Yangchun pose during the torch relay of the 19th Asian Games in Jinhua, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 17, 2023. (Xinhua/Sun Fei)

Green rural revival program rejuvenates villages in China's Zhejiang

STORY: Green rural revival program rejuvenates villages in China's Zhejiang DATELINE: June 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:15 LOCATION: HANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: ECOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of villages 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): GUO SHENGLONG, Farmer in Cailu Village 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LU YANGCHUN, Party secretary of Cailu Village 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): JIANG WANFEN, Party secretary of Jiangxiang Village STORYLINE: A rural revival program in China's Zhejiang has breathed new life into thousands of villages and empowered local communities. Zhejiang launched the Green Rural Revival Program in June 2003, which planned to renovate about 10,000 incorporated villages and transform about 1,000 central villages among them into examples of moderate prosperity in all respects. Cailu Village in Zhejiang used to be a traditional agricultural village. Over the past 20 years, under the Green Rural Revival Program, Cailu has been transformed into a model village of beautiful scenery and shared prosperity, especially

Chinese court orders return of stolen Buddha statue from Dutch collector

STORY: Chinese court orders return of stolen Buddha statue from Dutch collector DATELINE: July 19, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:58 LOCATION: SANMING, China CATEGORY: LAW/CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the stolen Buddha statue 2. STANDUP (English): HONG YAN, Xinhua correspondent 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LIN WENYU, Yangchun villager 4. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LIN WENQING, Yangchun villager STORYLINE: STANDUP 1 (English): HONG YAN, Xinhua correspondent "On Tuesday, a court in east China's Fujian Province ruled in favor of local villagers demanding the return of a stolen Buddha statue from a Dutch collector." This sculpture was CT scanned in 2013 and shown to contain the mummified body of a Song Dynasty (960-1279) Buddhist monk called Zhanggong Zushi. It had been housed in Puzhao Temple, co-owned by Yangchun Village and Dongpu Village in Datian County in Sanming. STANDUP 2 (English): HONG YAN, Xinhua correspondent "Here is the hall where the mummified body of the Buddhist monk had been worshipped by villagers for more tha