[Commentary] 25-year-old Rees is now a foreign teacher at the School of Foreign Languages of Taiyuan University of Technology.
In recent months, as an experience officer, he has visited Shanxi's mother river Fenhe, Datong's 10,000 acres of yellow flowers, power plants, coking plants, nucleic acid testing stations, and experienced Shepherd outside the Great Wall, and deeply perceives Shanxi from many fields.
Fenhe is the mother river of Shanxi Province, and Taiyuan Fenhe Park is the first stop of the Rees experience.
The Fen River runs through the north and south of Taiyuan, and the park is built along both sides of the river.
【Concurrent】Rees
These mountains can be seen from almost every angle of the city, and they give Taiyuan a unique atmosphere, as if being in a valley.
I have lived in Taiyuan for more than 2 years. I often come to this park, but I have only visited about half of the place. The park is too big.
Compared with the city parks in the UK, this park is obviously much larger.
This also means that the environment of Fenhe Park needs to be treated for a long time.
[Commentary] Beside the Fenhe Wetland, Rees borrowed the photographer's lens to photograph the birds swimming in the Fenhe.
[Concurrent] Photographer Zhang Xiangdong
What we see now is a kind of bird called crested head, and there are about 250 species of birds that have passed through Taiyuan.
[Explanation] After seeing the city scenery, Rees came to Datong in northern Shanxi.
At 2 a.m., he picked yellow flowers with a local yellow flower grower.
【Concurrent】Rees
Why pick at night?
[Concurrent] Datong yellow flower grower Tang Wan
Because it can guarantee the quality and quality of yellow flowers, once the flowers bloom, its quality will not go up.
Some (bees) came to collect nectar, and the stamens and pollen (all were collected).
【Concurrent】Rees
It's beautiful, I really like this job.
Do you like this job?
[Same period] Tang Wan, a villager of Datong yellow flower planting
Like, this year's income is more than 40,000 (yuan).
The village has grown from the original 200 mu to the current 4,000 mu.
[Explanation] Rees walked into the yellow flower processing workshop and sales store.
【Concurrent】Rees
Yellow flowers can of course be sold online or offline in major cities, such as Taiyuan, Beijing, and Shanghai.
More than 100 kinds of yellow flower derivatives are exported to Canada, South Korea and many other countries.
In the future I hope my British family and friends can taste and love yellow flowers too.
[Explanation] In addition to agriculture, Rees also walked into industrial power plants.
Shanxi is a large coal province in China, and he came to a coal thermal power generation company.
【Concurrent】Rees
In China, especially in Shanxi Province, coal is widely used for power generation. Obviously, reducing carbon emissions and other pollutants has become the focus of the work, and we will explore these two aspects more.
If you ask me to imagine what a thermal power plant looks like, I would think that everything there is black. This blackness will spread all over the corners, and even the windows and vehicles will be polluted with blackness. The cleanliness here is beyond my imagination. , there is even an orchard in the main building of the power plant, with all kinds of fruits on the trees, I would never associate the power plant with so many fruit trees before, but there are many colleagues of my film crew here to pick here in the afternoon Fruits are eaten, so I think these fruits should be delicious.
What do these numbers mean?
[Same period] Shen Yongliang, a staff member of the power plant
The column on the far right is the emission standard for environmental protection. This is because we carried out ultra-low emission transformation in 2014 and 2015. Through ultra-low emission transformation, we can reduce the emission of carbon dioxide pollutants, so that the villages and rivers around us, And our city is getting more and more beautiful.
【Concurrent】Rees
There are many similar state-owned enterprises in Shanxi Province, and they are all working hard to reduce emissions with similar methods.
Like this power plant, the carbon dioxide produced is food-grade and used in beverage production. Maybe in the future, the beverage you drink will contain the carbon dioxide captured in the power plant.
[Explanation] Rees' experience role is more than that. He also saw shepherds outside the Great Wall using drones to graze, "zero energy huts" provided to the medical industry as nucleic acid detection sites, and unattended coking using 5G technology. The workshop, all these shocked him.
【Concurrent】Rees
Unknowingly, the way people in Shanxi have changed their way of life, how happy they are, and how their quality of life has improved over the past few years, I would say this is what surprised me the most.
There's also the widespread use of technology, like technologies like 5G.
You think of a farming town in northern China, and from a foreign perspective, you probably didn't expect them to use 5G technology in drones and stuff like that.
And here, people are still trying to develop.
There are many more things I want to show them here.
So are my friends, I'm sure if they were visiting from the UK or elsewhere in Europe they would be amazed by what's going on here and have a great time.
Qu Lixia Zhang Licheng Gao Yuqing Shanxi Comprehensive Report
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]