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RWANDA-KIGALI-CHINA-JUNCAO CULTIVATION TECHNOLOGY

(240802) -- KIGALI, Aug. 2, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Lin Zhanxi (R), a professor from China's Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, visits a mushroom growing shed in Kigali, Rwanda, on Aug. 2, 2024. Juncao is a hybrid grass and an important multifunctional agricultural resource developed and used for mushroom farming in China. The innovation invented by Lin Zhanxi from China's Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in the 1980s has benefitted over 100 countries, including Rwanda. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Ji Li) TO GO WITH Roundup: Chinese Juncao technology bringing tangible benefits to Africans

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RWANDA-KIGALI-CHINA-JUNCAO CULTIVATION TECHNOLOGY

(240802) -- KIGALI, Aug. 2, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Lin Zhanxi (L), a professor from China's Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, visits a mushroom growing shed in Kigali, Rwanda, on Aug. 2, 2024. Juncao is a hybrid grass and an important multifunctional agricultural resource developed and used for mushroom farming in China. The innovation invented by Lin Zhanxi from China's Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in the 1980s has benefitted over 100 countries, including Rwanda. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Ji Li) TO GO WITH Roundup: Chinese Juncao technology bringing tangible benefits to Africans

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Italy experiences over decade of growth marred by growing inequality

STORY: Italy experiences over decade of growth marred by growing inequality SHOOTING TIME: June 3, 2024 DATELINE: June 4, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:51 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Bank of Italy 2. various of streets in Rome STORYLINE: While wealth in Italy grew over the last 15 years, the economic gap between high-income and medium-income families has also widened, a national report recently showed. Italy is the third largest economy in the European Union (EU) after Germany and France, and its total net wealth increased by about 14 percent between 2010 and 2023, according to the latest Bank of Italy's annual report. However, the distribution of wealth was increasingly uneven and mostly benefitted the wealthiest 10 percent of households, while middle-class families saw their relative share of wealth decrease. In terms of wealth distribution, Italy's population can be divided into three groups (top, medium, and bottom group), the central bank said. The top 10 percent of households

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Chinese online platform gains popularity with Cuban users

STORY: Chinese online platform gains popularity with Cuban users DATELINE: Aug. 11, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:41 LOCATION: Havana CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of a print shop 2. various of a grocery store STORYLINE: Daniel Lasso, who runs a print shop in the Havana district of El Vedado, has benefitted a lot from Nihao53, a Chinese online platform for wholesale trade that has become increasingly popular with Cuban users. With a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Havana, Lasso opened a family-run business five years ago. The 36-year-old regularly acquires products through the platform, including cups, glasses, key rings and magnets. He told Xinhua that access to the Chinese market helps keep his business running by securing a steady supply of products. "So far so good," he said. "We are buying products that are not available in the Cuban market. It helps expand our business and increase our earnings." Lasso's workmate Fidel Nunez said that the quality of Chinese products is u

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Modern farming technology facilitates cotton planting in China's Xinjiang

STORY: Modern farming technology facilitates cotton planting in China's Xinjiang DATELINE: April 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:54 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of fields and cotton sowing in Xinjiang 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): GUNIQIGULI REHEMU, Villager in Bachu County, Kashgar, Xinjiang 3. various of cotton sowing in Xinjiang 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): GUNIQIGULI REHEMU, Villager in Bachu County, Kashgar, Xinjiang STORYLINE: Cotton growers in China's Xinjiang have benefitted from modern planting technologies as cotton sowing is now in full swing. In Bachu County, southern Xinjiang's Kashgar, farmers are resorting to autopilot sowing machines enabled by the domestically developed BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): GUNIQIGULI REHEMU, Villager in Bachu County, Kashgar, Xinjiang "Previously, manual sowing was used and the plastic film was paved unevenly. Now with the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, agricultural machines are operating with 'eyes,'

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CHINA-SHANDONG-PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY-PAINTING (CN)

(220808) -- JINAN, Aug. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A student learns oil painting on a public welfare program in Weihai, east China's Shandong province, Aug. 7, 2022. The public welfare program helping people with disability learn oil painting skills was implemented in Weihai in 2015. The organizers of the program also help sell the paintings via exhibitions, auctions and on-line sales. So far, the program has benefitted more than 600 trainees. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)

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CHINA-SHANDONG-PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY-PAINTING (CN)

(220808) -- JINAN, Aug. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Students learn oil painting on a public welfare program in Weihai, east China's Shandong province, Aug. 7, 2022. The public welfare program helping people with disability learn oil painting skills was implemented in Weihai in 2015. The organizers of the program also help sell the paintings via exhibitions, auctions and on-line sales. So far, the program has benefitted more than 600 trainees. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)

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CHINA-SHANDONG-PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY-PAINTING (CN)

(220808) -- JINAN, Aug. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Oil painter Wang Gang (1st L) teaches a student on a public welfare program in Weihai, east China's Shandong province, Aug. 7, 2022. Wang Gang, who became disabled after a car accident, was one of the first batch of students attending the oil painting program. Now he is an instructor of the program. The public welfare program helping people with disability learn oil painting skills was implemented in Weihai in 2015. The organizers of the program also help sell the paintings via exhibitions, auctions and on-line sales. So far, the program has benefitted more than 600 trainees. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)

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CHINA-SHANDONG-PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY-PAINTING (CN)

(220808) -- JINAN, Aug. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Oil painter Wang Gang (1st R) shares his ideas with students on a public welfare program in Weihai, east China's Shandong province, Aug. 7, 2022. Wang Gang, who became disabled after a car accident, was one of the first batch of students attending the oil painting program. Now he is an instructor of the program. The public welfare program helping people with disability learn oil painting skills was implemented in Weihai in 2015. The organizers of the program also help sell the paintings via exhibitions, auctions and on-line sales. So far, the program has benefitted more than 600 trainees. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)

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CHINA-SHANDONG-PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY-PAINTING (CN)

(220808) -- JINAN, Aug. 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Oil painter Wang Gang (3rd L) poses for a group photo with his students on a public welfare program in Weihai, east China's Shandong province, Aug. 7, 2022. Wang Gang, who became disabled after a car accident, was one of the first batch of students attending the oil painting program. Now he is an instructor of the program. The public welfare program helping people with disability learn oil painting skills was implemented in Weihai in 2015. The organizers of the program also help sell the paintings via exhibitions, auctions and on-line sales. So far, the program has benefitted more than 600 trainees. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)

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Viktor Orban

Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said the proposed future EU Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-2027 was unjust after meeting of prime ministers of Visegrad Group (V4, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary) countries, on November 5, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic. He also criticised the maintaining of the system of rebates, from which especially West European countries benefitted. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)

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VIKTOR ORBAN

Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said the proposed future EU Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-2027 was unjust after meeting of prime ministers of Visegrad Group (V4, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary) countries, on November 5, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic. He also criticised the maintaining of the system of rebates, from which especially West European countries benefitted. (CTK Photo/Ondrej Deml)