Foreign tourists try traditional archery at a rural tourist spot in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, on May 10. ZHU HAIPENG/FOR CHINA DAILY
When Egyptian scholar Mohamed Noureldin traveled to Xiangyang, a small city in Central China's Hubei province, he expected to explore its ancient city walls. Instead, he found himself watching a humanoid robot patrol a power-grid monitoring hall online.
Moving quietly between rows of digital control screens, the robot monitors real-time data from nearly 100 substations and alerts engineers when anomalies appear.
"It works like an AI guardian for the power grid," Noureldin said.
For Noureldin, who spent more than a decade studying at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui province, the trip reinforced his belief that understanding China increasingly requires traveling beyond its biggest cities.
