STORY: British vlogger explores advanced infrastructure in E China's Hangzhou
SHOOTING DATE: June 7, 2024
DATELINE: June 13, 2024
LENGTH: 00:03:04
LOCATION: HANGZHOU, China
CATEGORY: SOCIETY/TECHNOLOGY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of Hangzhou
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JASON LIGHTFOOT, British vlogger
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): YAO CHAOYI, Staff member, State Grid Hangzhou Power Supply Company
4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): FU CENYING, Staff member, State Grid Hangzhou Power Supply Company

STORYLINE:

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JASON LIGHTFOOT, British vlogger
"Now I'm here at the lake, just relaxing, enjoying this peaceful time by West Lake, and I noticed something. On one side of the city, you have the hustle and bustle of the CBD area. And then over here, you have the peacefulness and tranquility of the lake. But in both areas, I didn't see any wires hanging anywhere. So let's go find out what's going on. I've spotted something very interesting over here. Let's go take a look, see what's going on. Hello, can I ask you, what are you doing here?"

West Lake underwater cable operation and maintenance point

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): YAO CHAOYI, Staff member, State Grid Hangzhou Power Supply Company
"We are using the underwater robot to carry out daily inspection of the underwater cable in the West Lake."

"Wow so this is a robot, right?"

"Yes."

"Can you show me how does it work?"

"The robot has a camera. Through the camera, (we can) find the defect. Hangzhou transferred all the overhead wires around the West Lake to the bottom of the lake, in order to retain its beautiful scenery."

"So that's why you don't see any of the cables hanging above in Hangzhou. Because it's below the water."

"Yes, Hangzhou is a highly cabled city. It's not just underwater, there are even more underground. I can take you to see it together."

"Okay, let's go."

Hangzhou Asian Games Village integrated utility tunnel electrical chamber

SOUNDBITE 3 (English): FU CENYING, Staff member, State Grid Hangzhou Power Supply Company
"Nice to meet you. This is the underground cable monitoring room of our company. Here we can take the real-time information of the underground cables. And we can also watch the various operations of power cables. Now we are just looking at the real-time images of the underground cables. And these are just under our feet right now. And on this screen, these are images from the robot dog."

"Robot dog?"

"Yes. And we have the little dog running in the corridors."

"Wow here we have the robot dog, right?"

"Yes."

"It's very modern and futuristic."

"These two are the cameras sending the pictures, the images to the monitoring room."

"Yes, what we saw up there."

"And this is its arm. We can follow it to see how it works."

"Okay, let's see where it's going."

"It could check the temperature in the corridor, and also it could diagnose whether there are defects or flaws in the cables. We can see how it works."

"So it's going to check these cables."

"The underground cables in the city not only make the city safer, but it also makes Hangzhou's beauty known worldwide."

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