CHINA-SICHUAN-SANXINGDUI-CULTURAL RELIC RESTORER (CN)

CHINA-SICHUAN-SANXINGDUI-CULTURAL RELIC RESTORER (CN)

(240501) -- CHENGDU, May 1, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Guo Hanzhong compares two parts of a figure on a bronze altar at Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 30, 2023. Guo Hanzhong is the vice head of the cultural relics storage department of the Sanxingdui Museum in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The 56-year-old man is skilled in the craft of restoring cultural relics. In the past 40 years, he has restored more than 6,000 cultural relic items and was deeply involved in the excavation of all the eight "sacrificial pits" found at Sanxingdui Ruins site. After the completion of the field work in the Sanxingdui Ruins site, sorting, protection and restoration of newly unearthed cultural relics have become the most important work in the current research. "There are probably tens of thousands of relics waiting to be restored, and I can't finish the job in my generation. It needs to be done from generation to generation," Guo Hanzhong said, "Repairing cultural relics needs exper

(ChineseToday)CHINA-HUNAN-DATONG LAKE-ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT (CN)

(ChineseToday)CHINA-HUNAN-DATONG LAKE-ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT (CN)

(240418) -- CHANGSHA, April 18, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on April 20, 2023 shows workers collecting aquatic plants at Datong Lake aquatic plants industrial demonstration park in Yiyang, central China's Hunan Province. Dongting Lake in central China's Hunan Province is the second-largest freshwater lake in the country. Located on the central region of the Dongting Lake, Datong Lake is known as "the heart of the Dongting". Due to disorder aquaculture development, the water quality of Datong Lake was once seriously deteriorated. In January 2018, an aquatic vegetation planting project was launched in Datong Lake area, with a team from Wuhan University providing technical guidance. In order to support the comprehensive water environment management and ecological industry development of Datong Lake, a scientific workstation was established here in April 2019. Li Yang, a postdoctoral fellow from Wuhan University, has been working at Datong Lake since 2018. While completing the project exper

Exploring Eco-China | How tech helps protect grassland ecosystems

STORY: Exploring Eco-China | How tech helps protect grassland ecosystems DATELINE: July 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:08:30 LOCATION: HOHHOT, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of grasslands in Inner Mongolia 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LIU YUTIAN, Xinhua correspondent 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): LIU YUTIAN, Xinhua correspondent 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): MANDELA ELORM ADDRAH, Ghanaian expert in agronomy 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): LIU YUTIAN, Xinhua correspondent 6. SOUNDBITE 5 (English): MANDELA ELORM ADDRAH, Ghanaian expert in agronomy 7. SOUNDBITE 6 (English): LIU YUTIAN, Xinhua correspondent 8. SOUNDBITE 7 (English): MANDELA ELORM ADDRAH, Ghanaian expert in agronomy 9. SOUNDBITE 8 (Chinese): LIU SIYANG, Senior researcher at M-Grass 10. SOUNDBITE 9 (Chinese): MANDELA ELORM ADDRAH, Ghanaian expert in agronomy 11. SOUNDBITE 10 (Chinese): LIU SIYANG, Senior researcher at M-Grass 12. SOUNDBITE 11 (Chinese): LIU SIYANG, Senior researcher at M-Grass 13. SOUNDBITE 12 (English): MANDELA ELORM ADDRAH, Ghanaian exper

CHINA-SICHUAN-YIBIN-YANGTZE STURGEON-CONSERVATION (CN)

CHINA-SICHUAN-YIBIN-YANGTZE STURGEON-CONSERVATION (CN)

(230712) -- CHENGDU, July 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on June 27, 2023 shows a breeding base jointly operated by Yibin Institute of Rare Aquatic Animals and Fisheries Institute of Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Yibin, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Zhou Liang, 51, is the director of Yibin Institute of Rare Aquatic Animals. He started to study with his father the subject of artificial breeding of rare fish since 1993. Since the successful artificial propagation of parent fish of Yangtze sturgeon bred in the institute in 1998, the whole artificial propagation of the rare fish and the production of three generations of fry have been realized one after another. Yangtze sturgeon, also known as Dabry's sturgeon, has lost its natural ability to reproduce since 2000 due to overfishing and water pollution, among other factors. The International Union for Conservation of Nature declared the species extinct in the wild in July last year. In March this year, a field breeding exper

CHINA-QINGHAI-AUTISTIC CHILDREN-SERVICE CENTER (CN)

CHINA-QINGHAI-AUTISTIC CHILDREN-SERVICE CENTER (CN)

(230402) -- XINING, April 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chen Zhifang watches as children take a class at Starlight Special Children Service Center in Xining, northwest China's Qinghai Province, March 30, 2023. Chen Zhifang is the founder of the Starlight Special Children Service Center in Xining. Founded in 2015, the service center is a non-profit public welfare organization that provides early rehabilitation training and intervention for children with autism, intellectual disabilities and language disorders. Currently, 132 autistic children are receiving various rehabilitation trainings here. Over the past eight years, the service center has become a place of hope for many autistic children and their families. According to the different cognitive, expressive and physical abilities of each child, the service center provides individualized education methods. For now, many children here are able to go to shops, take buses and even go back to school. "As a parent of an autistic child, I hope to pass on my exper

Political party leaders, experts hail significance of Chinese modernization

STORY: Political party leaders, experts hail significance of Chinese modernization DATELINE: March 15, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:47 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of China-related footage 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Turkish): DOGU PERINCEK, Chairman of the Patriotic Party of Türkiye 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ADEM FARAH, Vice President and General Secretary of Prosperity Party, Ethiopia 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): MARTIN ALBROW, British sociologist 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): ANNA MALINDOG-UY, Vice President, Asian Century Philippines Strategic Studies Institute 6. SOUNDBITE 5 (Spanish): EDUARDO REGALADO, Senior researcher of International Policy Research Center of Cuba STORYLINE: Chinese modernization is a key term defining China's journey to rejuvenation. Chinese modernization is the modernization of a huge population, of common prosperity for all, of material and cultural-ethical advancement, of harmony between humanity and nature, and of peaceful development. Many political party leaders and exper

Barcelona's La Pedrera launches mixed reality tour of Gaudi's modernist masterpiece

STORY: Barcelona's La Pedrera launches mixed reality tour of Gaudi's modernist masterpiece DATELINE: July 20, 2022 LOCATION: BARCELONA, Spain LENGTH: 00:01:52 CATEGORY: CULTURE/ART SHOTLIST: 1. exterior view of La Pedrera 2. various of visitors experiencing the Mixed Reality tour 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Catalan): XAVI TRIBO, Technology director of La Pedrera Magical Vision 4. various of visitors with MR headset interactive with the Mixed Reality elements 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Catalan): XAVI TRIBO, Technology director of La Pedrera Magical Vision 6. various of exclusive tour of the mezzanine of the building with furniture and murals by Gaudi *Render pictures are courtesy of La Pedrera STORYLINE: Barcelona's La Pedrera has offered visitors a mixed reality tour of the emblematic building built by architect Antoni Gaudi. La Pedrera Magical Vision is the name of the first initiative of its kind in Spain that uses mixed reality glasses to create a multi-sensory environment and give visitors an immersive and interactive exper