STORY: French youth amazed by world's largest single-dish radio telescope in SW China
SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 27, 2024
DATELINE: Feb. 28, 2024
LENGTH: 00:02:19
LOCATION: GUIYANG, China
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY/SOCIETY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the visit
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): FLORENT MADROLLE, Member of French delegation
3. various of the visit
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): INES NABIL, Head of the French delegation

STORYLINE:

A French delegation including students, young volunteers and employees from a French non-profit organization, visited the FAST telescope and the memorial hall dedicated to the late chief scientist of FAST project Nan Rendong in SW China's Guizhou on Tuesday.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): FLORENT MADROLLE, Member of French delegation
"I guess the size of it (FAST), the technology we've never seen before in any other country. I don't know if there's other telescope like that in other countries. So very impressive, like in the middle of nowhere in the mountains, never seen anything like that before, so very impressive. It's a good thing, and it's necessary to improve our understanding and global cooperation is very important. It's a good thing."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): INES NABIL, Head of the French delegation
"The project is to exchange with young Chinese people to understand the reality of their life, of the culture and to understand us, too. It's for (us to) understand that the development of China is very fast and how much it develops."

FAST, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, started formal operation in January 2020. It is believed to be the world's most sensitive radio telescope.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Guiyang, China.
(XHTV)