STORY: Chinese companies support Sri Lanka's green development
SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 16/17, 2024
DATELINE: Dec. 27, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:34
LOCATION: KANDY, Sri Lanka
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the international symposium
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): CAO DONGPING, Director of overseas marketing, Anhui Landun Photoelectro Co., Ltd.
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): WEI MIN, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation
4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): CHANAKA GUNARATHNA, Business Development Manager of CJ Holdings (PVT) LTD
5. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): CHINTHAKA WICKRAMAARACHCHI, Officer in charge of Department of National Community Water Supply-Kandy

STORYLINE:

An international symposium on climate resilient water supply and a water technology exhibition were held in Sri Lanka recently.

Both events were organized by Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences under Chinese Academy of Sciences, and China-Sri Lanka Joint Research and Demonstration Center for Water Technology (JRDC)

Experts and scholars from several countries and regions discussed water treatment technologies and expertise in addressing climate change.

SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): CAO DONGPING, Director of overseas marketing, Anhui Landun Photoelectro Co., Ltd.
"One of our company's products is environmental monitoring, which has two parts: one is the monitoring of air and pollution sources; the other is water quality monitoring. We will have more cooperation with relevant departments in Sri Lanka in the future, and there will be greater room for development."

SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): WEI MIN, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation
"We hope that through the opportunities of doing projects in Sri Lanka and around the world, we can bring Chinese enterprises' high-quality products to "Belt and Road" partner countries and make greater contributions to our ecological and environmental protection."

SOUNDBITE 3 (English): CHANAKA GUNARATHNA, Business Development Manager of CJ Holdings (PVT) LTD
"As for exhibition, we can actually directly collaborate with Chinese partners and Sri Lankan government specialists and Sri Lankan industrial, so this will be a great opportunity. We can share our knowledge and share our resources. This is a very good opportunity, actually."

SOUNDBITE 4 (English): CHINTHAKA WICKRAMAARACHCHI, Officer in charge of Department of National Community Water Supply-Kandy
"Professor Yang Min (who delivered a keynote speech at the symposium) and his colleagues are very helpful. They are guiding us on how to use AI technologies, how to use the rural water supply schemes and advantages of the low-cost treatment plants. Those kinds of things are very helpful to us."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kandy, Sri Lanka.
(XHTV)