STORY: Chinese university helps Mekong River countries through rice-fish co-culture
SHOOTING TIME: May 15-16, 2024
DATELINE: May 20, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:10
LOCATION: XUANCHENG, China
CATEGORY: ECONOMY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the project launched by Shanghai Ocean University
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WU XUGAN, Professor at the College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): KAMARA ABDULAI MERRY, Sierra Leonean student at Shanghai Ocean University 
4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): KAMARA ABDULAI MERRY, Sierra Leonean student at Shanghai Ocean University

STORYLINE:

An agricultural project launched by Shanghai Ocean University helps farmers in countries along the Mekong River through rice-fish co-culture technology.

SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WU XUGAN, Professor at the College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University
Under the Belt and Road (BRI) framework, China has proposed the Lancang-Mekong cooperation. So we launched this project in this context. Because China is a major aquacultural country in the world with developed aquacultural technology. There are six countries who are involved in the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation framework. We hope that the region will be prosperous together and poverty will be reduced with China's poverty alleviation experience.

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): KAMARA ABDULAI MERRY, Sierra Leonean student at Shanghai Ocean University
This is my experimental site. This place is called Honglin. It is in Xuancheng, Anhui. My experimental direction is to do its rice-fish co-culture. The fish is a general term here. I will be dealing with crustaceans.

SOUNDBITE 3 (English): KAMARA ABDULAI MERRY, Sierra Leone student at Shanghai Ocean University
So we hope to extend these technologies to various countries. We are mixing agriculture and aquaculture in a specific set, to ensure that we change the livelihoods, we improve the livelihoods of different people in different countries.

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