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Week-long China Art Festival opens in Zagreb

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STORY: Week-long China Art Festival opens in Zagreb
SHOOTING TIME: Oct. 1, 2024
DATELINE: Oct. 2, 2024
LENGTH: 0:01:29
LOCATION: Zagreb
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the festival and visitors
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): QI QIANJIN, Chinese Ambassador to Croatia
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): BAI XIAOTING, President of the China-Croatia Economic and Cultural Cooperation Association

STORYLINE:

The China Art Festival opened in Zagreb on Tuesday with a ceremony featuring a performance by Croatia's Busina Brass Quintet, which played Chinese classics such as Jasmine Flower and The Moon Represents My Heart, receiving warm applause from the audience.
  
Chinese Ambassador to Croatia Qi Qianjin highlighted the importance of cultural exchange in strengthening China-Croatia relations, calling it a bridge to enhance mutual understanding and friendly ties. He noted that China's modernization efforts, including cultural reforms, will further boost international exchanges and open new opportunities for cooperation with Croatia.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): QI QIANJIN, Chinese Ambassador to Croatia
"Today's art festival will be a good chance for Croatian people to know about Chinese traditional arts. Particularly, today's art festival theme is the flower and the women. So in Chinese traditional arts, flowers represent beauty and auspicious things, like peony, like other flowers represent happiness and good fortune."
   
The festival, organized by the China-Croatia Economic and Cultural Cooperation Association, runs from Oct. 1-6, featuring exhibitions, tea art, Pipa performances, and cheongsam shows.
   
Bai Xiaoting, president of the association, said that since its establishment in Zagreb in 2018, the association has been committed to promoting cultural exchanges between the two countries and promoting cooperation between the two countries' museums.

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): BAI XIAOTING, President of the China-Croatia Economic and Cultural Cooperation Association
"I think if we have the chance, we can introduce more and more Chinese, no matter new generations or the arts coming here and to communicate."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Zagreb.
(XHTV)

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