CHINA-HUNAN-DONGTING LAKE-RESEARCHERS (CN)

CHINA-HUNAN-DONGTING LAKE-RESEARCHERS (CN)

(230724) -- YUEYANG, July 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Xie Yonghong introduces a self-designed breeding tailwater treatment facility at a bullfrog breeding base in Heba Town, Datong Lake District of Yiyang, central China's Hunan Province, July 10, 2023. Located on the central region of the Dongting Lake, Datong Lake is known as "the heart of the Dongting Lake". Xie Yonghong is the head of the Dongting Lake Station for Wetland Ecosystem Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Researchers conduct studies on the ecosystem of the Dongting Lake wetland in this station, which was founded in 2009. Xie Yonghong has played an important role during the establishment of this station since its preparation phase in 2007. Since 2009, Xie Yonghong and his team have taken root in the Dongting Lake wetland and committed to maintaining the local ecological balance and biodiversity for more than a decade. From the age of 36 to 50, Xie Yonghong has gradually become a scientific researcher focusing on scientific researc

Boarding schools in Xizang fundamentally different from colonial-era residential schools in West: expert

STORY: Boarding schools in Xizang fundamentally different from colonial-era residential schools in West: expert DATELINE: March 11, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:45 LOCATION: GENEVA, Switzerland CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of China's Xizang Autonomous Region 2. various of the UN Human Rights Council 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHALUO, Professor, China Tibetology Research Center STORYLINE: An expert has said that boarding schools in China's Xizang Autonomous Region are totally different from those "colonial-era residential schools in Canada, Australia, and the United States," where "astonishing tragedies once happened." Zhaluo, a professor with the China Tibetology Research Center, made the remarks at a side-event themed "The Concept and Practice of Human Rights in China" of the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): ZHALUO, Professor, China Tibetology Research Center "I once studied at a boarding school. Besides, over the past 30 years, I have been committed to researc

CHINA-CHENGDU-ENDANGERED PLANT-REDISCOVERY (CN)

CHINA-CHENGDU-ENDANGERED PLANT-REDISCOVERY (CN)

(220822) -- CHENGDU, Aug. 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Aug. 17, 2022 shows researcher Hu Jun checking a picture of Euonymus aquifolium at Chengdu Institute of Biology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences in southwest China's Sichuan Province. According to the Chengdu Institute of Biology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), researchers have rediscovered a critically endangered plant, Euonymus aquifolium, during China's second scientific research survey on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Euonymus aquifolium is a rare and vegetatively distinctive species, and the rediscovery by Chinese researchers uncovered the only presently confirmed living individuals more than 110 years after a single gathering collected by British scientist E.H. Wilson in 1908, according to a research article published in the journal PhytoKeys. "I was lucky. Some experts have been looking for it for more than a decade, and some even fell down mountains during the expedition, but to no avail." said Hu Jun, assistant researc

Roll of Japanese chemical warfare unit disclosed

STORY: Roll of Japanese chemical warfare unit disclosed DATELINE: Aug. 16, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:45 LOCATION: HARBIN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of a roll of the Japanese chemical warfare unit 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): JIN CHENGMIN, Curator of exhibition hall STORYLINE: A roll of a Japanese chemical warfare unit was revealed for the first time in China on Monday. The document contains the real names and personal information of 414 members of Unit 516, which was set up by the Japanese army in May 1939 in Qiqihar City of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, according to the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, Heilongjiang's capital. As the base camp of Japan's chemical warfare, Unit 516 developed a range of toxic agents and used them during warfare. The document was originally held by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan and then collected by the National Archives of Japan. A photocopy was obtained by a researc