11th Togo int'l fashion festival concludes in Lome

STORY: 11th Togo int'l fashion festival concludes in Lome SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 24, 2023 DATELINE: Feb. 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:27 LOCATION: Lome CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the 11th Togo international fashion festival FIMO228 held in Togo's capital Lome STORYLINE: The 11th Togo international fashion festival FIMO228 concluded in Togo's capital Lome on Saturday. A celebration of cultural cross-pollination, the four-day festival has over the years become a not-to-be-missed event in the fashion calendar in the country, attracting designers from home and abroad as well as numerous audiences. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Lome. (XHTV)

Youths contribute to hybrid wheat breeding in Xi'an, China

STORY: Youths contribute to hybrid wheat breeding in Xi'an, China DATELINE: May 5, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:38 LOCATION: XI'AN, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of researchers working 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WANG XUAN, Researcher from Yangling Qinfeng Seed-industry Co., Ltd. 3. various of Chinese agriculture STORYLINE: A research team in Xi'an, China, has successively bred and promoted 15 wheat varieties through wheat cross-breeding. Nearly 70 percent of the 26-member team in Yangling Qinfeng Seed-industry Co. are "post-80s" and "post-90s." They use advanced technologies to improve the efficiency of wheat hybrid breeding. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WANG XUAN, Researcher from Yangling Qinfeng Seed-industry Co., Ltd. "Wheat breeding can be divided into several stages. What we are doing now is removing stamens and cross-pollination of wheat. Then we will have the first filial generation of hybrids, or F1 hybrids. After that, we select those with superior traits, which are called F2 hybrids. The process