STORY: Int'l students impressed by "Chinese artificial sun"
SHOOTING TIME: July 22 and July 26, 2024
DATELINE: July 30, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:47
LOCATION: HEFEI, China
CATEGORY: SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the summer camp
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): REINE AL INDARI, Student of American University of Beirut, Lebanon
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): KSENIIA DOLGOVA, PhD student of Ioffe Institute, Russia
4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): ANDREI NAGOVITSYN, PhD student of Ioffe Institute, Russia
5. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): ALEXANDER PETROV, Head of communication of RF ITER Domestic Agency, State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom

STORYLINE:

Thirty-four international students are attending a summer camp in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province.

The month-long camp is organized by the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The students participated in various activities including visiting Science Island, home to the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), known as the "Chinese artificial sun."

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): REINE AL INDARI, Student of American University of Beirut, Lebanon
"I've been really interested in coming here and having hands-on experiments on the EAST because it's one of the largest tokamaks in the world. I would really like to continue working in this field. EAST is very promising as well in this field. So I'm really glad I had the opportunity to come here."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): KSENIIA DOLGOVA, PhD student of Ioffe Institute, Russia
"It's the first time I've seen such a great tokamak in my life, and it is very impressive. I would like to make collaboration."

SOUNDBITE 3 (English): ANDREI NAGOVITSYN, PhD student of Ioffe Institute, Russia
"All facilities, all buildings on Science Island, and infrastructure are very exciting. I understand that a lot of people work here to pursue a goal and that's impressive. I just want to collaborate with some scientists from these groups. And I believe that there will be more collaborations in the future."

SOUNDBITE 4 (English): ALEXANDER PETROV, Head of communication of RF ITER Domestic Agency, State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom
"Now fusion is being developed as a global cooperation because only in this way, we can achieve the results that we want and give people the future source of energy. Such a type of interaction like summer schools, like camps, breed interests in young scientists in young brains to get along, to move on with fusion research."

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