STORY: China Festival 2024 captivates Tokyo residents with diverse cultural activities
SHOOTING TIME: Sept. 7, 2024
DATELINE: Sept. 9, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:24
LOCATION: Tokyo
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the festival
2. various of visitors
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): SUGURU OGINO, Director of International Affairs Division, Shiga Prefectural Government, Japan
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): JUNKO TOYA, Tokyo resident & JUNKO TOYA's daughter

STORYLINE:

China Festival 2024 concluded on Sunday in downtown Tokyo's Yoyogi Park.

Some 150 booths were set up to showcase the vitality of China's booming economy.

The two-day festival featured food tasting, tourism promotion, and cultural displays such as erhu performances, acrobatic shows and popular animation.

Visitors also experienced new energy vehicles, smartphones and other forms of Chinese "intelligent manufacturing."
   
SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): SUGURU OGINO, Director of International Affairs Division, Shiga Prefectural Government, Japan
"Various booths showcase not only the charm of different parts of China's Hunan Province, but also the cuisine, traditional handicrafts and cultures of other regions of China.
I hope more Japanese people can learn how charming China is, and I hope the event can help encourage more of them to visit China."

SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): JUNKO TOYA, Tokyo resident & JUNKO TOYA's daughter
"We just ate Xiaolongbao (steamed buns) and experienced Chinese ink paintings as well as the Sichuan Opera face-changing performance. We've traveled to China about 20 times and really love it."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Tokyo.
(XHTV)