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Exploring over 5,000-year-old Neolithic settlement site in east China

STORY: Exploring over 5,000-year-old Neolithic settlement site in east China DATELINE: May 10, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:23 LOCATION: MA'ANSHAN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY/CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the excavation area of Lingjiatan 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHANG XIAOLEI, Archeologist 3. various of the excavation area of Lingjiatan STORYLINE: The Lingjiatan relics site in Ma'anshan City, east China's Anhui Province is a Neolithic settlement site dating back 5,300 to 5,800 years, with a total area of about 1.6 million square meters. Since it was discovered in 1985, Lingjiatan has been known for the jade ware unearthed from the site. Archaeologists believe that Lingjiatan predates Liangzhu Culture, a testament to the 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization, and has a successive relationship with it. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHANG XIAOLEI, Archeologist "I'm now at the excavation area of the outer trench of Lingjiatan. Through excavation, we have learned the width and structure of the outer trench and found a large number

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Consul general buys furniture for ambassador

DENVER, United States - File photo shows the Japanese consulate general in Denver, Colorado. Consul General Makoto Mizutani, 52, has been dismissed for mishandling about $81,600 in public funds. Sources close to the Foreign Ministry said in Tokyo on July 28 Mizutani spent about $5,800 in public funds for purchasing furniture in a bid to win a favor of Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai in December 1999.

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Nagoya store shows off pearl-encrusted samurai helmet

NAGOYA, Japan - A woman tries on a samurai helmet encrusted with about 5,800 pearls at a department store in Nagoya on Feb. 20. The helmet was made by a pearl jeweler in Ise, Mie Prefecture for the annual Children's Day holiday May 5. The helmet is not for sale, but is valued at around 20 million yen.

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A journey of jade culture from China to Mexico

STORY: A journey of jade culture from China to Mexico DATELINE: Nov. 8, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:11 LOCATION: HEFEI, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP 1 (English): HE XIYUE, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of Lingjiatan relics site 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): SUN LIANGFENG, Director of Hanshan county museum 4. STANDUP 2 (English): HE XIYUE, Xinhua correspondent 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): EMILIANO MELGAR, Archaeologist with Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History STORYLINE: STANDUP 1 (English): HE XIYUE, Xinhua correspondent "The land I am standing on may seem ordinary, but it played an important role in the Chinese civilization. This is the Lingjiatan relics site, part of the project to trace the origins of Chinese civilization. Dating back to about 5,800 years to 5,300 years ago, Lingjiatan is known for the discovery of more than 1,000 pieces of jadeware, one of which inspired the backside design of the medals for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Want to know what jadeware made by people

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CHINA-MT. QOMOLANGMA-WEATHER STATION (CN)

(220501) -- LHASA, May 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on April 29, 2022 shows an automatic meteorological station set up at an altitude of about 5,800 meters on Mount Qomolangma. Chinese scientists are mounting efforts to establish a meteorological monitoring station at an altitude of 8,800 meters on Mount Qomolangma, the world's highest peak, on the China-Nepal border. If the station is established successfully, it will replace the one at an altitude of 8,430 meters set up by the British and U.S. scientists on the south side of the mountain in 2019, to be the world's highest of its kind, according to the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. TO GO WITH "China Focus: World's highest automatic weather station to be set up on Mt. Qomolangma" (Xinhua)

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XINHUA-PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2021-CHINA NEWS

(220106) -- BEIJING, Jan. 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Lei Qiyuan, a village-level forest ranger, rests during a forest patrol at Tunying Village in Dongxiang Town of Wuxuan County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nov. 24, 2021. Lei is in charge of the management of about 5,800 mu (386.7 hectares) of forest. (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

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Consul general buys furniture for ambassador

DENVER, United States - File photo shows the Japanese consulate general in Denver, Colorado. Consul General Makoto Mizutani, 52, has been dismissed for mishandling about $81,600 in public funds. Sources close to the Foreign Ministry said in Tokyo on July 28 Mizutani spent about $5,800 in public funds for purchasing furniture in a bid to win a favor of Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai in December 1999.

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Nagoya store shows off pearl-encrusted samurai helmet

NAGOYA, Japan - A woman tries on a samurai helmet encrusted with about 5,800 pearls at a department store in Nagoya on Feb. 20. The helmet was made by a pearl jeweler in Ise, Mie Prefecture for the annual Children's Day holiday May 5. The helmet is not for sale, but is valued at around 20 million yen.