(SP)CHINA-NINGBO-ASIAN GAMES-SAILING-MEN'S SINGLE DINGHY(CN)

(SP)CHINA-NINGBO-ASIAN GAMES-SAILING-MEN'S SINGLE DINGHY(CN)

(230925) -- NINGBO, Sept. 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Cui Yinsheng of China competes during the Men's Single Dinghy ILCA7 Race of Sailing at the 19th Asian Games in Ningbo, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 25, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)

China-U.S. 'Ping pong diplomacy' remembered in Nagoya

China-U.S. 'Ping pong diplomacy' remembered in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Xu Yinsheng (L) from China, former president of the International Table Tennis Federation, and Atsushi Goto, head of the Aichi Table Tennis Association, shake hands at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, central Japan, on May 7, 2014. The gym was a venue at the 1971 World Table Tennis Championships where an encounter between Chinese and U.S. teams led to the start of talks on establishing diplomatic relations between Beijing and Washington.

New hothouses under construction for hibernation of captive-born Chinese alligators

STORY: New hothouses under construction for hibernation of captive-born Chinese alligators DATELINE: Dec. 2, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:07 LOCATION: XUANCHENG, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP 1 (English): YUE YUANYUAN, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of Yangtze alligator 3. STANDUP 2 (English): YUE YUANYUAN, Xinhua correspondent 4. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LI YINSHENG, Staff member of the Anhui Yangtze Alligator Reserve 5. STANDUP 3 (English): YUE YUANYUAN, Xinhua correspondent 6. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): XIA TONGSHENG, Deputy director of the administration of the Anhui Yangtze Alligator Reserve STORYLINE: STANDUP 1 (English): YUE YUANYUAN, Xinhua correspondent "Now I'm at the Yangtze Alligator Reserve, in Xuancheng City, east China's Anhui Province. As the weather turns colder, and as we can see it's snowing heavily today, the Yangtze alligators start their annual trip to a warmer place for hibernation. Behind me, the workers are moving the alligators into these iron boxes, which will be lifted by the

Last wartime overseas Chinese mechanic passes away

STORY: Last wartime overseas Chinese mechanic passes away DATELINE: Oct. 30, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:05 LOCATION: CHONGQING, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Jiang Yinsheng and his home STORYLINE: Jiang Yinsheng, the last wartime overseas Chinese mechanic known as the Nanyang Volunteer, died at the age of 96 in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Saturday. The Nanyang Volunteers refer to some 3,000 overseas Chinese drivers and mechanics living in Southeast Asian countries who were rallied by famous business pioneer and philanthropist Tan Kah Kee to "help the motherland in her hour of need" in 1939 during the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Jiang was born in Calcutta, India in 1927. During the war, he joined Nanyang Volunteers. These volunteers returned to China to help transport war supplies and carry out emergency repairs of vehicles along the 1,146-km Yunnan-Myanmar Road, a critical lifeline that became a major target of Japanese airstrikes. In 1949,