Feature: Tibetan maintenance worker ensures local power use


  • World
  • Tuesday, 03 May 2022

LHASA, May 2 (Xinhua) -- An electrician in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Tashi Nyima needs to hold his nerve while working on pylons with 10kV high-voltage wires.

With three layers of insulating gloves wrapped around his hands, he needs to navigate through all the live wires and connect the tripping wire of a household as soon as possible.

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