NANCHANG, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Inside the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Institute, rows upon rows of grey metal cabinets house thousands of transparent drawers filled with ancient ceramic shards. Together, they form the world's first ancient ceramic gene bank -- a database that stores broken pottery like DNA. Jingdezhen City in east China, known as the "porcelain capital," has produced ceramics for over 1,700 years. B
Xinhua Headlines: Jingdezhen turns bank of ceramic shards into hub for global research
