STORY: Chinese culture impresses me: Croatian actress
SHOOTING TIME: early footage
DATELINE: Dec. 28, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:23
LOCATION: XI'AN, China
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the museum
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): VITOMIRA LONCAR, Former Croatian actress
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): VITOMIRA LONCAR, Former Croatian actress

STORYLINE:

Vitomira Loncar, a former Croatian actress living in China, said she's impressed with the Chinese culture. 

In 2016, Loncar chose to settle in China's Xi'an and worked as a professor at Xi'an Eurasia University. 

Recently, she visited the Shaanxi Archaeological Museum to explore China's prehistoric civilization through the artifacts unearthed from over 4,000 years ago. 

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): VITOMIRA LONCAR, Former Croatian actress
"In China I started my new life and I also discovered my new identity, part of Chinese identity. I know (some of the artifacts are) from Qin Dynasty, I know (some are) from Zhou Dynasty, but this, what I saw today, is even deeper in the past. You can have a better starting point for cross-culture communication. So your culture impressed you, but also impressed me."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): VITOMIRA LONCAR, Former Croatian actress
"Every time when I meet a new piece of Chinese culture, I'm always impressed. You must come and you must see all those museums. Every day you must learn new things, you must see how deep this history is. You can be more confident, you can be more proud."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Xi'an, China.
(XHTV)