Turning mine site into green cultural park

STORY: Turning mine site into green cultural park DATELINE: March 12, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:08 LOCATION: HUANGSHI, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of miners planting trees 2. various of the Huangshi National Mine Park 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): XIAO MENG, Security staff of Huangshi National Mine Park 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): XIAO MENG, Security staff of Huangshi National Mine Park STORYLINE: China's Tree-Planting Day falls on Sunday. In Huangshi City of central China's Hubei Province, nearly 100 people went to the Huangshi National Mine Park to plant trees. This park is built on the site of a century-old iron ore mine called Daye Iron Mine. It was Asia's biggest opencast mine. After 1958, over 360 million tonnes of waste rocks were dumped at the mine site. After decades of rapid economic development and resource exploitation, Huangshi was listed as a resource-exhausted city in 2009. To improve the environment, local people started to plant trees here in the 1980s. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese)