STORY: Vlog: Attendees of World Media Summit share China stories 
SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 2-5, 2023
DATELINE: Dec. 5, 2023
LENGTH: 00:02:14
LOCATION: GUANGZHOU, China
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the fifth World Media Summit
2. STANDUP (English): ZHENG XIN, Xinhua correspondent
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LUIS AUSAN MORENTE, Director of the News and Information Bureau, Head of the Philippine News Agency (PNA)
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MARK LEVINE, Professor of Minzu University of China
5. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): FRANCISCO ALBERTO TAIANA, Historian, sinologist, Argentina's National News Agency Telam
6. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): GUILLERMO FRANCO GALLEGOS, General Manager of Grupo Multimedios, Mexico

STORYLINE:

STANDUP (English): ZHENG XIN, Xinhua correspondent
"At the ongoing fifth World Media Summit, a group of intentional observers deeply knowledgeable about China, have shared their China stories with us, and offered their insights on China's development."

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LUIS AUSAN MORENTE, Director of the News and Information Bureau, Head of the Philippine News Agency (PNA)
"We are so surprised that China is much developed than as expected. I've seen rapid development of China, including in Shanghai, so many buildings. And what impressed me most is the news that China was able to address extreme poverty several years back. And that's very, very impressive."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MARK LEVINE, Professor of Minzu University of China
"It's extraordinary. It's very extraordinary. I've traveled in 31 provinces (of China). I've been in communities where poverty alleviation was taking place. I've seen old houses. But the farmers aren't living there anymore. They're living in a new house right next door, or in an apartment building, very close to their fields. And the key element of that modernization in China is what can be referred to as a people-centered modernization of people-centered development."

SOUNDBITE 3 (English): FRANCISCO ALBERTO TAIANA, Historian, sinologist, Argentina's National News Agency Telam
"I've been to Shanghai, Xi'an, and Beijing and was fascinated by just the scale of the country, its dynamism, its profound history, and I started to understand it.
I think that Chinese modernization is quite breathtaking. China's development is also a great example of the central function of the state to ensure common prosperity for its people to be able to guide long-term strategic development in key sectors."

SOUNDBITE 4 (English): GUILLERMO FRANCO GALLEGOS, General Manager of Grupo Multimedios, Mexico
"Coming to China is always amazing. It's a country that we have learned to learn from it. And it's amazing all what you have done. We can learn from the Chinese phenomenon, that's what you're doing with the culture, with the society, with the infrastructure, with all the aspects of life."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Guangzhou, China.
(XHTV)