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Green development becomes hallmark of rural areas in China's Zhejiang

STORY: Green development becomes hallmark of rural areas in China's Zhejiang DATELINE: June 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:24 LOCATION: HANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the village 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): XIAO ZHONGYA, Supervisor of planting base, Zhejiang Tasha horticulture Co., Ltd. 3. various of the village 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): JIN ZHENGHUA, Party chief of Taoyuan Village, Zhejiang Province 5. various of the village 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): SUN JIE, Project manager, Jiajiayouyun Platform, Yundong Village 7. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): CHEN LIANYING, Resident in Yundong Village, Zhejiang Province 8. various of the village STORYLINE: Green development has emerged as a defining feature of rural areas in China's Zhejiang Province, since a rural revival program was launched here 20 years ago. With a focus on people's well-being, the Green Rural Revival Program, which covers as many as 10,000 villages, was launched in June 2003 to address the imbalance in development between cities and r

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JTB invests in Spring Airlines

TOKYO, Japan - Hiromi Tagawa (L front), president of Tokyo-based travel agency JTB Corp., and Wang Zhenghua, chairman of Chinese budget carrier Spring Airlines Co., shake hands after their press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2014. JTB has invested in Spring Airlines to boost travel between Japan and China.

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Spring Airlines chairman meets press at Kansai airport

KANSAI AIRPORT, Japan - Wang Zhenghua, chairman of Chinese budget carrier Spring Airlines Co., speaks to reporters at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture on March 15, 2014.

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Spring Airlines freezes business expansion plans in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in May 2012 shows passengers boarding a flight of Chinese budget carrier Spring Airlines bound for Ibaraki Airport in Japan at Shanghai Pudong International Airport in China. Spring Airlines, which currently operates flights to three Japanese cities, plans to freeze plans to fly to additional destinations in the country, the airline's chairman Wang Zhenghua said in late March 2013.

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China's low-cost Spring Airlines to fly to Thailand, S. Korea

SHANGHAI, China - Passengers board a flight of Chinese budget carrier Spring Airlines bound for Ibaraki Airport in Japan at Shanghai Pudong International Airport in China on May 20, 2012. The company is planning to fly to Thailand from July and to South Korea from August, expanding its international route network, which has so far been limited to Japanese cities, Chairman Wang Zhenghua and other top officials have told Kyodo News.

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Chinese tourists affirm safety of Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Shohei Muroi (R), mayor of Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, gives to China's Spring Airlines Chairman Wang Zhenghua a small self-righting doll, a local lucky charm, in front of Tsuruga Castle in the city on May 22, 2012, the last day of a three-day tour of the prefecture by a group of nearly 40 people from mainland China. Many of the Chinese tourists support the view the area is a wonderful and safe place to visit, after seeing with their own eyes that life in many ways has returned to normal following the 2011 nuclear disaster.

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1st China mainland tour group since disaster visits Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - Wang Zhenghua, chairman of budget carrier Spring Airlines, receives a lei after arriving at Spa Resort Hawaiians, a leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 20, 2012, in the first tourist group from China's mainland to visit Japan's Fukushima Prefecture since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Spring Airlines flight arrives in Ibaraki

TOKYO, Japan - Spring Airlines President Wang Zhenghua (C) and Ibaraki Gov. Masaru Hashimoto (2nd from L) attend a ceremony at Ibaraki airport, northeast of Tokyo, on July 28, 2010, to mark the arrival of the first flight of the Chinese budget airline from Shanghai. Spring Airlines became the second foreign airline to operate flights to Ibaraki.

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CHINA-SICHUAN-CHILD-OPERA (CN)

(220601) -- CHENGDU, June 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Hua Hua poses for group photos with his master Zhang Lianseng and other apprentices in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 27, 2022. Hua Hua (nickname), a 6-year-old boy, is a Sichuan opera fan, learner and an internet celebrity with more than 8 million fans following his learning process. Influenced by his father Zhou Zhenghua, who is a professional Sichuan opera actor, Hua Hua has started to learn basic skills of Sichuan Opera for a while. In January this year, Hua Hua became an apprentice of Sichuan opera master Zhang Lianseng for further learning. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)

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CHINA-SICHUAN-CHILD-OPERA (CN)

(220601) -- CHENGDU, June 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Hua Hua practices basic skills at a training room in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 27, 2022. Hua Hua (nickname), a 6-year-old boy, is a Sichuan opera fan, learner and an internet celebrity with more than 8 million fans following his learning process. Influenced by his father Zhou Zhenghua, who is a professional Sichuan opera actor, Hua Hua has started to learn basic skills of Sichuan Opera for a while. In January this year, Hua Hua became an apprentice of Sichuan opera master Zhang Lianseng for further learning. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)

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CHINA-SICHUAN-CHILD-OPERA (CN)

(220601) -- CHENGDU, June 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Hua Hua practices basic skills with his father Zhou Zhenghua in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 25, 2022. Hua Hua (nickname), a 6-year-old boy, is a Sichuan opera fan, learner and an internet celebrity with more than 8 million fans following his learning process. Influenced by his father Zhou Zhenghua, who is a professional Sichuan opera actor, Hua Hua has started to learn basic skills of Sichuan Opera for a while. In January this year, Hua Hua became an apprentice of Sichuan opera master Zhang Lianseng for further learning. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)

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CHINA-SICHUAN-CHILD-OPERA (CN)

(220601) -- CHENGDU, June 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Hua Hua practices Sichuan opera with other apprentices at a training room in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 27, 2022. Hua Hua (nickname), a 6-year-old boy, is a Sichuan opera fan, learner and an internet celebrity with more than 8 million fans following his learning process. Influenced by his father Zhou Zhenghua, who is a professional Sichuan opera actor, Hua Hua has started to learn basic skills of Sichuan Opera for a while. In January this year, Hua Hua became an apprentice of Sichuan opera master Zhang Lianseng for further learning. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)

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#CHINA-SPRING-FARMING (CN)

(220419) -- NEIJIANG, April 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A farmer plows the field in Xinpaifang Village, Gaoliang Township of Neijing City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 19, 2022. April 20 marks Guyu, which literally means "grain rain," referring the sixth of the 24 solar terms created by ancient Chinese to carry out agricultural activities. (Photo by Huang Zhenghua/Xinhua)

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#CHINA-SPRING-SCENERY (CN)

(220307) -- NEIJIANG, March 7, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on March 7, 2022 shows Neijiang section of Chengdu-Chongqing railway in southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Photo by Huang Zhenghua/Xinhua)

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#CHINA-SPRING-FARMING (CN)

(220211) -- BEIJING, Feb. 11, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Feb. 11, 2022 shows farmers harvesting garlic shoots in Huohua Village of Neijiang City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Photo by Huang Zhenghua/Xinhua)

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#CHINA-CHILDREN-NEW YEAR CELEBRATION (CN)

(211231) -- NEIJIANG, Dec. 31, 2021 (Xinhua) -- Children hold the Chinese character "Fu", meaning good luck in English, during a New Year celebration at a kindergarten in Neijiang, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Dec. 31, 2021. People across China organize various kinds of activities to greet the upcoming New Year. (Photo by Huang Zhenghua/Xinhua)

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China's Spring Group to open hotel chain in Japan

Wang Zhenghua (C), chairman of China Spring Group, unveils a plan on Oct. 28, 2015, to open a chain of hotels in Japan. The first hotel is expected to open in the first half of 2016 near Nagoya, central Japan. The group owns Spring Airlines and Shanghai Spring International Travel Services, China's largest low-cost carrier and travel agency respectively. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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China's low-cost Spring Airlines to fly to Thailand, S. Korea

SHANGHAI, China - Passengers board a flight of Chinese budget carrier Spring Airlines bound for Ibaraki Airport in Japan at Shanghai Pudong International Airport in China on May 20, 2012. The company is planning to fly to Thailand from July and to South Korea from August, expanding its international route network, which has so far been limited to Japanese cities, Chairman Wang Zhenghua and other top officials have told Kyodo News. (Kyodo)

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Chinese tourists affirm safety of Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Shohei Muroi (R), mayor of Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, gives to China's Spring Airlines Chairman Wang Zhenghua a small self-righting doll, a local lucky charm, in front of Tsuruga Castle in the city on May 22, 2012, the last day of a three-day tour of the prefecture by a group of nearly 40 people from mainland China. Many of the Chinese tourists support the view the area is a wonderful and safe place to visit, after seeing with their own eyes that life in many ways has returned to normal following the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Kyodo)

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1st China mainland tour group since disaster visits Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - Wang Zhenghua, chairman of budget carrier Spring Airlines, receives a lei after arriving at Spa Resort Hawaiians, a leisure complex in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 20, 2012, in the first tourist group from China's mainland to visit Japan's Fukushima Prefecture since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo)